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Monida, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lima-Centennial Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59739. The Survey maps it on the Monida quadrangle. It stands 6,788 feet above sea level.

Monida within Beaverhead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Monida between 2000 and 2018, burning about 3,072 acres 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
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 September 2002Smoking2.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHUMPHREY
5 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use6.5 acresDillon Field OfficeMILE MARKER 4
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
26 July 2000Smoking3,058 acresButte Field OfficeSNOWLINE

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Monida: 5 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
MonidaBarium-BariteOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Monida PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
Monida PlacerGoldOccurrence
Paul PropertyGoldOccurrence1923
Paul PropertyGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Beaverhead County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monida in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 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
September 2019Heavy RainMonida-A mesnoet station at Lima Reservoir recorded 1.07 inches of rain.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMonida-Monida Pass mesonet station reported 59 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMonida-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Monida Pass.
July 2000WildfireMonida-Snowline fire, 3059 acres burned, unknown cause.

Every storm recorded in Beaverhead 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
Lima15.6 miles11
Dell23.2 miles12
Lakeview26.8 miles14
Kidd28.5 miles11
Nicholia (historical)30.6 miles10
Red Rock35.5 miles10
Hildreth39.3 miles12
Armstead (historical)40.7 miles10

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 MonidaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6900127The 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 787554. 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.