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Moorhead, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Otter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59317. It stands on Trail Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moorhead quadrangle.

Moorhead within Powder River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Moorhead between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,684 acres in total. 53 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
Natural53
Firearms and explosives use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1994Natural1,300 acresMiles City Field OfficeFLUFFY
7 September 2014Natural230 acresMiles City Field OfficeBRADSHAW
5 September 2013Natural6.5 acresMiles City Field OfficeDRY CREEK
5 September 2009Naturalunder an acreMiles City Field OfficeKELSEY DRAW
5 September 2009Naturalunder an acreMiles City Field OfficeGRAVEL PIT
13 September 2015Natural15 acresMiles City Field OfficeSAMS
10 September 2018Natural98 acresMiles City Field OfficeROUGH
8 August 2003Natural5.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeBOOT JACK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powder River County

Storms near this place

24 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorhead in 24 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 11 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-Mesonet station Bradshaw Creek.
June 2023Flash FloodMoorhead-Moorhead Road was washed out at Plum Creek.
May 2019FloodMoorhead-Heavy rain across the area, combined with snow melt over the Big Horn Mountains, resulted in rising water levels along the Powder River in Powder River County. Although there were reports of numerous flooded fields, no significant impacts were observed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-Strong winds flipped over a snowmobile trailer.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was estimated 9 miles northeast of Moorhead. The wind was accompanied by pea size hail and very heavy rain.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-Winds estimated at 60 mph occurred 10 miles northeast of Moorhead.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-A wind gust of 65 mph was estimated 4 miles southeast of Moorhead.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-Estimated wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph along with very heavy rain was reported 6 miles east/southeast of Moorhead.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-65 mph measured wind gust at Bradshaw Creek RAWS. 1.44 inches of rain also measured within an hour.
July 2020HailMoorhead-no account filed
June 2015HailMoorhead-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-no account filed
July 2008HailMoorhead-no account filed
June 2007HailMoorhead-no account filed
June 2006HailMoorhead-no account filed
June 2006HailMoorhead-no account filed
June 2006HailMoorhead-no account filed
June 2006HailMoorhead-no account filed
June 2006HailMoorhead-no account filed
June 2005HailMoorhead-no account filed
June 2005HailMoorhead-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Powder River 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
Sayle13.0 miles10
Bay Horse16.2 miles8
Otter20.1 miles8
Moores (historical)20.2 miles8
Sonnette24.1 miles10
Biddle28.3 miles8
Epsie31.7 miles8
Broadus35.9 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 MoorheadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18391144The 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 774368. 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.