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Mill Iron, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Ekalaka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59324. It lies near Coal Creek Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mill Iron quadrangle. It stands 3,110 feet above sea level.

Mill Iron within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Mill Iron between 1996 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 July 2000Natural2.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeSNOW
30 July 2020Natural14 acresMiles City Field OfficeWOOD
15 July 2019Naturalunder an acreCarter CountyMILL - CARTER
8 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMiles City Field OfficeROCK
21 June 1996Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestWOOD

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mill Iron in 23 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMill Iron$3,000Tree damage with 60-70 mph winds
July 2025HailMill Iron-Most pea size, but with the occasional golf ball size hail.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMill Iron-A spotter reported 60 mph winds and downed tree limbs.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindMill Iron-A steel wheelbarrow was flipped over and some tree branches 3-4 inches in diameter were broken.
July 2014HailMill Iron-Tennis ball size hail took out all north-facing windows of a home and caused significant roof and siding damage. The hail also destroyed car windows.
June 2010HailMill Iron-The ground was almost white from quarter size hail.
June 2005HailMill Iron-Windows broken, cars damaged
November 2000Heavy RainMill Iron-2 inches of rain since 6pm the previous night
July 2022HailMill Iron-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMill Iron-no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMill Iron-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMill Iron-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMill Iron-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMill Iron-no account filed
July 2014HailMill Iron-no account filed
September 2013HailMill Iron-no account filed
July 2011HailMill Iron-no account filed
July 2008HailMill Iron-no account filed
July 2008HailMill Iron-no account filed
June 2005HailMill Iron-no account filed
June 2005HailMill Iron-no account filed
June 2002HailMill Iron-no account filed
July 2001HailMill Iron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Elgin (historical)12.9 miles10
Midland (historical)14.9 miles11
Belltower17.0 miles8
Ekalaka17.8 miles9
Prairie Dale (historical)18.5 miles8
Pershing (historical)18.7 miles8
Beaver Flats (historical)25.6 miles9
Ridgeway29.8 miles8

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 Mill IronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18344994The 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 774229. 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.