Mildred, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Terry South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59326. The Survey maps it on the Mildred quadrangle. It stands 2,359 feet above sea level.

Mildred within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Mildred quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Wibaux quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Mildred between 2004 and 2020, burning about 279 acres in total. 5 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	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
29 August 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	LOONEY HOLLOW
14 August 2016	Natural	3.5 acres	Miles City Field Office	STOCKETT
9 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Eastern Land Office	ALDINGER - ROSEBUD
9 July 2004	Natural	5.5 acres	Miles City Field Office	MILDRED
27 July 2019	Natural	19 acres	Miles City Field Office	ASH
10 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	219 acres	Miles City Field Office	FALLON
21 May 2017	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	MILDRED
7 November 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	32 acres	Miles City Field Office	WHITNEY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

57 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mildred in 57 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 39 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 flash 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
July 1998	Hail	Mildred	$12,000	A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball sized hail and gusty winds. A large dead elm tree was blown down and a roof was blown off of a steel building. Several small trees were also blown down. Wheat crops in the area suffered devastating damage.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	$10,000	Wind tore a solid roof off a barn and drove a 2x6 foot wood beam 1.5 inches into a tree.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	Public reported that the wind lofted the roof of barn. Pieces of the roof were scattered up to half a mile away.
July 2022	Hail	Mildred	-	A trained spotter reported hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2021	Hail	Mildred	-	Public reported ping pong size hail. Time estimated from radar.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Mildred	-	Public reported 2 inches of rain fell during a two hour period. The rain came in two waves with most of it falling during the first 30 minutes. Time estimated from radar.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	Multiple well established cottonwood trees on a property, ranging from 30 to 40 feet tall and 1 to 3 feet in diameter were uprooted or blown over. Estimated wind was 70mph.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	Public reported a car port blown across a street where it damaged a pickup truck. vehicles moved and damaged by wind gusts. Penny size hail was also reported with damage to some crops. Wind gust speed estimated. Time estimated by radar.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	A 76 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured by an automated weather station.
July 2018	Hail	Mildred	-	Public reported quarter size hail and wind gusts up to 40 mph.
May 2018	Hail	Mildred	-	A trained spotter reported hail up to the size of golf balls.
August 2018	Hail	Mildred	-	Public reported hail up to the size of quarters and heavy rain.
August 2018	Hail	Mildred	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Mildred	-	Heavy rain began falling at approximately 4:30 AM MST. Public reported water swiftly flowing across Cabin Creek Road and flooding the yard of a home in the area. Total rainfall amount estimated in excess of 4 inches by 9:00 AM MST.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Mildred	-	Public reported water running over a roadway, displacing some of the gravel. Location is on Cabin Creek Road, south of Ash Creek Road. Time estimated by radar.
July 2016	Hail	Mildred	-	Trained spotter reported penny sized hail.
June 2015	Hail	Mildred	-	Trained spotter reported tennis ball sized hail.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	Trained spotter reported 61 mph winds and heavy rain.
June 2014	Hail	Mildred	-	Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail.
June 2014	Hail	Mildred	-	Trained spotter reported golf ball-sized hail.
June 2014	Hail	Mildred	-	Trained spotter reported penny-sized hail.
July 2013	Hail	Mildred	-	Cooperative observer reported hail up to the size of golf balls.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	Trained spotter measured wind gusts up to 69 mph.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	Trained spotter reported shingles ripped from a roof.
August 2013	Hail	Mildred	-	Trained spotter estimated quarter-sized hail and reported heavy rain.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	Trained spotter estimated 70 mph winds with heavy rain reducing visibility to less than one-quarter mile.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	Public estimated a 74 mph wind gust.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	Public measured a 74 mph wind gust.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	Spotter measured wind gust of 58.6 mph at their personal LaCrosse weather station on site, thirty feet above ground. Winds also downed a large tree with a 3-feet diameter trunk.
August 2012	Hail	Mildred	-	Public reported hail up to the size of nickels.
August 2011	Hail	Mildred	-	Spotter reported hail accompanied by brief heavy rain.
May 2010	Heavy Rain	Mildred	-	Rainfall of 1.07 inches fell from a thunderstorm.
May 2010	Hail	Mildred	-	Mostly 0.75 inch hail with some stones one inch and slightly larger.
September 2009	Hail	Mildred	-	Hail up to the golf-ball size fell with the storm.
September 2009	Hail	Mildred	-	Some quarter-sized hail was mixed in with the nickel-sized hail.
September 2009	Hail	Mildred	-	Mostly penny-sized hail fell with this storm, but quarter and half dollar sized hail fell as well.
August 2009	Hail	Mildred	-	Nickel size hail, no strong wind.
August 2009	Hail	Mildred	-	Quarter size hail, no strong wind.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	65 mph wind gust reported by spotter 11 miles southwest of Mildred.
August 2011	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Mildred	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Mildred	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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
Fallon	13.9 miles	10
Bluffport	14.5 miles	9
Terry	20.3 miles	8
Sutherland (historical)	21.5 miles	8
Calypso	25.4 miles	8
Blatchford	26.1 miles	8
Zero	28.0 miles	8
Saugus	28.2 miles	8

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 Mildred	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18344860	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 774199. 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.