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Montague, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Geraldine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59442. It stands on Telephone Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Montague quadrangle.

Montague within Chouteau 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 Montague between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,384 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
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
9 September 2005Natural1,136 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChouteau CountyFDH-MTLG19-190
8 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresNortheastern Land OfficeLOST LAKE
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresChouteau CountyFDH-MTLG19-121
27 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresChouteau CountyFDH-MTLG19-186
2 February 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1,041 acresChouteau CountyLOST LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chouteau 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 Montague: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Potassium, Cobalt, Copper, Manganese, Molybdenum. 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
Big Lake DepositsPotassium, Cobalt, Copper, Manganese, MolybdenumOccurrence
White LakeSaltOccurrence

Every working recorded in Chouteau County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montague in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindMontague-Ambient weather station Stone windmill measured a 63 mph gust.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMontague-Peak wind gust at military site.
May 2014HailMontague-Hail 1.75 inches (golf ball sized) reported.
May 2014HailMontague-Hail 1.75 inches (golf ball sized) reported about 10 mi NW of Geraldine, MT. Spotter returned home 45 minutes after event. Original hailstone could have exceeded 2.00 inches.

Every storm recorded in Chouteau 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
Patterson (historical)6.4 miles13
Shonkin7.2 miles13
Geraldine11.3 miles13
Lonetree (historical)13.1 miles13
Fort Benton14.8 miles14
Big Sag14.9 miles13
Ophir (historical)17.5 miles14
Square Butte17.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 774341. 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.