Musselshell, Montana
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Melstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59059. It stands on Fourmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Musselshell quadrangle. 59 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,995 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMusselshell fell from 60 to 59 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 60 | |
| 2020 | 59 | -1 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Musselshell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Musselshell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Musselshell between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Musselshell County | FISHEL CREEK RD |
| 30 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Musselshell County | SWATHER |
| 24 July 2019 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Musselshell County | 4MILE RD |
| 14 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Musselshell County | BIC |
| 26 May 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Land Office | RIM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Musselshell in 31 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 24 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Hail | Musselshell | - | A window was broken. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Musselshell | - | The peak river stage of the Musselshell River at Roundup was 11.5 feet, a foot and a half above flood stage and the sixth highest crest on record. These high water levels moved downstream toward the town of Melstone where flooding was reported along Highway 12 between Roundup and Melstone. Bender Road was washed out between Log Cabin Road and County Road #4. In addition, Ragged Point Road was washed out approximately 9 miles up near the CRP Fields. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Musselshell | - | Numerous power poles were snapped. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Musselshell | - | Two 5000 gallon oilfield tanks were pushed uphill from their storage area and located one mile away. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Musselshell | - | Cars were dented by golf ball size hail. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Musselshell | - | Hail swath was three miles wide. One home reported car, roof, and skylight damage. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Musselshell | - | Several 8 to 12 inch diameter tree branches down. 20 foot long branches down as well. One branchwas blown through the siding and insulation of home and bulged out the sheetrock on the insideof a room. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Musselshell | - | Windows smashed 10 miles south of Musselshell |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Musselshell | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Absher (historical) | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Delphia | 6.9 miles | 6 | |
| Queens Point | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Melstone | 12.9 miles | 9 | |
| Kilby Butte Colony | 13.8 miles | 6 | |
| Fattig (historical) | 14.0 miles | 6 | |
| Gage | 16.3 miles | 6 | |
| Roundup | 24.4 miles | 6 |
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 Musselshell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q964866 | 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 774524. 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.



