BlockLothair, Montana
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59461. The Survey maps it on the Lothair quadrangle. It stands 3,320 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Lothair quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Conrad quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lothair in 2019, burning under an acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 February 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Liberty County | 38227 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lothair in 14 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Flood | Lothair | $50,000 | Roads north of Lothair become flooded from snowmelt. Liberty Co law enforcement closed several sections of several roads across the county. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | - | Mesonet station GW3478 Tctiber peak gust. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | - | Convective outflow gust from a decaying shower. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | - | Convective outflow gust from a decaying shower. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | - | Mesonet station GW3478 TCTIBER measured a severe caliber gust. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | - | Public Wunderground sensor KMTCHEST53 measured a severe caliber gust. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | - | A trained spotter reported a downed swing set and a significant number of trees limbs blown down due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Lothair | - | A trained spotter reported ping pong ball (1.5 inch diameter) to lime (2 inch diameter) size hail and gusty winds in excess of 50 mph. Heavy rain also caused some flooding. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Lothair | - | A trained spotter reported golf ball size (1.75 inch diameter) hail and gusty winds. Crop/tree damage and broken windows were observed. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Lothair | - | Hail of 1.00 inches was reported at Tiber Dam. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 65 mph at Lothair 13SSE. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lothair | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Lothair 4NNE. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Lothair | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiber | 8.4 miles | 6 | |
| Tiber Dam Camp | 13.5 miles | 6 | |
| Chester | 14.3 miles | 8 | |
| Eagle Creek Colony | 15.9 miles | 6 | |
| George (historical) | 18.2 miles | 6 | |
| Selma (historical) | 18.6 miles | 6 | |
| Buelow | 21.8 miles | 7 | |
| Hill | 21.9 miles | 6 |
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 Lothair | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18350468 | 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 773709. 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.