Nibbe, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Huntley Project census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59088. It stands on Pompeys Pillar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nibbe quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,890 feet above sea level.

Nibbe within Yellowstone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1893 USGS Huntley quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Nibbe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Billings quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Nibbe between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,536 acres in total. 12 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	18
Natural	12
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yellowstone County	I94 MM 25
7 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Yellowstone County	MM 26 I94
7 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	BUNDY RD@HWY 312
6 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Yellowstone County	HWY 3 MM 16
6 August 2013	Natural	8.5 acres	Billings Field Office	CASTLE BUTTE
5 August 2013	Natural	7.3 acres	Billings Field Office	CASTLE FLATS
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.2 acres	Southern Land Office	BUNDY RD. & BOZEMAN TRAIL
26 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	POMPEYS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yellowstone 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
Newton	1.7 miles	16
Anita	2.8 miles	16
Pompeys Pillar	4.0 miles	11
Mann	4.7 miles	16
Ballantine	6.7 miles	16
Worden	7.3 miles	16
Bull Mountain	9.4 miles	10
Knox	9.5 miles	16

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 Nibbe	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7024181	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 774618. 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.