Navajo, Montana

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Scobey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59222. The Survey maps it on the Navajo quadrangle.

Navajo within Daniels County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Navajo quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Scobey quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Navajo: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Clay Occurrence	Clay	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Daniels County

Storms near this place

11 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Navajo in 11 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Navajo	-	The Navajo MT-5 DOT site (MTRED) recorded a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Navajo	-	The public reported that their neighbors horse trailer had been blown over.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Navajo	-	The Navajo MT-5 DOT site (MTRED) measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Navajo	-	A trained spotter measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Navajo	-	Mesonet site MTRED located on Montana state highway 5 near Navajo reported a wind gust of 67mph.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Navajo	-	At the Navajo MT-5 DOT site (MTRED), a 58 mph wind gust was recorded.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Navajo	-	Public estimated a 70 mph wind gust while their car was nearly blown off the road by strong crosswinds.
June 2018	Hail	Navajo	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Navajo	-	A 66 mph wind gust was measured at the Navajo MT-5 DOT station.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Navajo	-	Heavy rain also fell with the storm. No hail was reported.
July 2010	Hail	Navajo	-	Large hail covered the ground. A lot of crop damage reported in the area.

Every storm recorded in Daniels 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Flaxville	6.0 miles	5
Whitetail	9.0 miles	5
Madoc	12.0 miles	5
Pleasant Prairie	13.9 miles	5
Julian (historical)	18.9 miles	5
Scobey	19.1 miles	5
Kahle (historical)	26.2 miles	5
Four Buttes	29.0 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 774558. 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.

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.