Leroy, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1959. It stands in the Chinook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59535. It lies near Lion Butte. The Survey maps it on the Leroy quadrangle.

Leroy within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Leroy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Leroy between 1996 and 2015, burning about 18 acres in total. 6 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
Natural	6

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
30 August 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	North Central Montana District	LONE TREE
25 August 1997	Natural	15 acres	North Central Montana District	PENDALL RD
16 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Malta Field Office	LION
5 July 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Malta Field Office	LEROY
21 July 1999	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	LION
10 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	North Central Montana District	LONE TREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leroy in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 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
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Leroy	-	RAWS station LBCM8 Little Bullwhacker Creek RAWS. Time was estimated using radar given the sensor reports one peak gust per hour.
June 2021	Hail	Leroy	-	Trained spotter reports 1 inch hail. In addition, 0.5 inches of rain fell with the thunderstorms.

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Riedel (historical)	7.8 miles	7
Ragland Bench (historical)	8.5 miles	7
Sour Dough Flat (historical)	9.2 miles	7
Hosey (historical)	9.5 miles	7
Golf Bench (historical)	10.0 miles	7
Maddux	19.1 miles	8
Rattlesnake	21.0 miles	10
Cow Island (historical)	21.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 773307. 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.