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Laredo, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rocky Boy's census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59501. It stands on Laredo Flats. The Survey maps it on the Laredo quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,644 feet above sea level.

Laredo within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Laredo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,485 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 1999Natural5.0 acresRocky Boy's AgencyRAILROAD
23 August 1997Natural2.5 acresRocky Boy's AgencyROUGH
18 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
17 August 2013Arson/incendiarism73 acresRocky Boy's AgencySTRAWBALE
11 August 2018Natural200 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
11 August 2007Naturalunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyDEMONTINEY
3 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreHill CountyFDH-MTLG12-106
27 July 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresRocky Boy's AgencyLAREDO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Laredo: 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Hill County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laredo in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023FloodLaredo$2,000,000Mountain snowpack in the Milk River basin melted out very quickly and contributed significant flooding. Virtually the entire Milk River system flooded in a matter of days as a result, starting near the headwaters in Hill County. Big Sandy Creek near Havre crested at 12.07 feet on April 13, which (as of entry) was the fourth highest crest on record. Route 50 was greatly flooded as well as some businesses . Farther north, Lodge Creek below McRae Creek approached Major Flood stage before cresting at 10.59 feet on April 18th. Much of rural northern Hill County experienced flooding as a result. The Milk River gauge near Havre remained below flood stage, although river levels did come out of their banks farther east, ultimately impacting eastern portions of Havre.

Every storm recorded in Hill County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Herron8.5 miles11
Burnham8.9 miles10
Beaver Creek9.8 miles11
Azure10.0 miles9
Cypress (historical)10.3 miles11
Box Elder10.5 miles10
Sangrey10.7 miles9
Pacific Junction10.8 miles11

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 LaredoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6488870The 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 773227. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.