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Nimrod, Montana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Drummond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59825. It lies near Dry Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Medicine Tree Hill quadrangle.

Nimrod within Granite County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Nimrod between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,965 acres in total. 57 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
Natural57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1

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
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeGROUSE GULCH
5 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use11 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
30 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLolo National ForestLODGEPOLE SPRING
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeMILE MARKER 132
22 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestGROUSE GULCH
19 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeNIMROD 2
14 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeMILE MARKER 141
13 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLolo National ForestBATEMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Nimrod: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc. 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
Clark Fork of the Columbia RiverGoldUnknown
Hidden Tunnel MineLead, ZincUnknown
Lucky Boy ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Mitchell Copper MineCopperUnknown
Mitchell Copper ProspectLead, CopperProducerVein

Every working recorded in Granite County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nimrod in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 debris flow. 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 2017FloodNimrod$50,000Granite county saw widespread impacts from the heavy rain. Philipsburg, MT received 3.28 inches of rain in 24 hours from noon 6/12 through noon 6/13. A public report from Georgetown Lake, MT had a measured 3.7 inches of rain over the 2-day event. Fred Burr Creek was particularly hard hit, with private driveway bridges being washed out, thus stranding a couple residents. Many of these same residents had basement flooding as well. USGS stream gauges on Boulder Creek near Maxville recorded 1410 cfs; 1000 cfs begins to cause road flooding issues, and this was much above this impact level. Rock Creek and Flint Creek both saw extremely rapid and high flows, with water spilling into adjacent fields. Georgetown Lake over-topped its spillway for the first time in years. Sapphire Mountain ditch managers narrowly avoided damage to a major irrigation channel feeding the Bitterroot Valley.
June 2023Debris FlowNimrod-A layer of mud was found caked over the Drummond Frontage Road the day after the rainfall which depicted that a debris flow had occurred.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNimrod-Three 6 to 8 inch diameter trees were snapped in half from Nimrod to Bearmouth.
July 2022HailNimrod-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindNimrod-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Granite 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
Byrne1.3 miles20
Baird (historical)2.4 miles18
Ravenna3.0 miles18
Bearmouth7.8 miles20
Beartown9.7 miles19
Quigley10.9 miles18
Stump Town (historical)11.2 miles19
Garnet11.3 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 788004. 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.