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Luther, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Red Lodge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59068. The Survey maps it on the Roscoe quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,197 feet above sea level.

Luther within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Luther between 1994 and 2017, burning about 8 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
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
18 August 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestPARKSIDE II
17 August 1996Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestTHIEL CREEK
17 August 1996Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestHOGAN CREEK
17 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land Office102 UPPER RED LODGE CREEK
26 June 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National Forestnot named
5 April 2006Debris and open burning7.0 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestLUTHER ASSIST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Luther: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Asbestos. 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
Ferris AsbestosAsbestosOccurrence
Rosebud, Tommy, JohnnyAsbestosOccurrenceAsbestos

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luther in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 3 hail, 2 heavy rain. 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
May 2005Heavy RainLuther-5 inches of rain in Luther (24-hour total)
May 2005Heavy RainLuther-2.48 inches of rain 20S Fishtail (Mystic Lake Power Plant 24-hour total)
July 2019HailLuther-no account filed
July 2011HailLuther-no account filed
June 2008HailLuther-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Linley (historical)0.0 miles13
Simpkins Place2.2 miles13
Alex Boggio Place2.3 miles13
Rankin Place3.9 miles13
Roscoe5.9 miles13
Peterson Place6.4 miles13
George Place6.5 miles13
George Place (historical)7.1 miles14

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 LutherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6705472The 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 786724. 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.