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Lennep, Montana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Martinsdale-Ringling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59053. It stands on Alabaugh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lennep quadrangle.

Lennep within Meagher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lennep in 2003, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
11 August 2003Naturalunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestCOMB CREEK

Every fire recorded in Meagher County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lennep: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Iron, Titanium. 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
Iron-Titanium OccurrenceREE, Iron, TitaniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Meagher County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lennep in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2008: 3 hail. 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
July 2008HailLennep-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Lennep 4NNW.
August 2002HailLennep-A severe thunderstorm produced 0.88 inch hail at Lennep 6SW.
June 2005HailLennep-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meagher 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
Bruno5.4 miles19
Castle Town7.0 miles19
Robinson7.7 miles19
Groveland7.9 miles17
Loweth9.3 miles19
Lebo9.3 miles17
Checkerboard10.8 miles17
Bill Bracket Place10.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 786050. 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.