BlockKidd, Montana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Clark Canyon-Horse Prairie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59725. It lies near McKnight Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Kidd quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1955 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Kidd quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Kidd quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kidd between 2000 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2000 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | BUCK |
| 28 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 16 July 2007 | Natural | 86 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | MCKNIGHT CANYON |
| 4 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Beaverhead County | I-15 M.P. 26-27 IN MEDIAN |
| 19 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Beaverhead County | DOOLING RANCH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kidd in 3 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kidd | - | Mesonet station MTM16 6.6 miles north of Dell measured a severe gust. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kidd | - | Mesonet station MTM16 6.6 miles north of Dell measured a severe gust. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kidd | - | Measured by site MTM16 about 6.6 miles north of Dell. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dell | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Red Rock | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Armstead (historical) | 13.2 miles | 10 | |
| Lima | 14.2 miles | 11 | |
| Grayling | 17.3 miles | 16 | |
| Hildreth | 17.3 miles | 12 | |
| Dalys | 19.7 miles | 16 | |
| Nicholia (historical) | 21.0 miles | 10 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Kidd | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q55885919 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 785720. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.