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Nye, Montana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Absarokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59061. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nye quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,857 feet above sea level.

Nye within Stillwater County

On record in Nye

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Nye between 1998 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 August 2013Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestHORSEMAN FLAT
7 August 1998Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLIMESTONE BUTTE
6 August 2020Naturalunder an acreStillwater CountyBENBOW
23 August 2011Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBLACK DOG
21 August 2010Smoking1.5 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestNYE ASSIST
17 August 2007Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBENBOW
17 August 2007Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBMCR
15 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestNYE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stillwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Nye: 8 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Platinum, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Iron. 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
BlitzPlatinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Gold, Copper, NickelOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mouat Iron-Titanium GroupIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Nye Basin Alice Cr-PtPlatinum, Chromium, Copper, NickelOccurrenceChromite
Nye Basin Big SevenChromium, PlatinumOccurrenceChromite
Nye Basin Cr-PtChromium, PGEOccurrence
Nye Basin LipPlatinum, Palladium, Rhodium, ChromiumOccurrenceChromite
Nye Basin Ni-Cu EastCobalt, Copper, Nickel, Gold, Silver, Palladium, PlatinumOccurrenceStillwater Ni-Cu
Nye Basin Ni-Cu LipNickel, Copper, Cobalt, Gold, PGE, SilverOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
Stillwater MinePlatinum, Palladium, PGE, Gold, Rhodium, Copper, Ruthenium, Osmium, Iridium, NickelProducer1971, 1986

Every working recorded in Stillwater County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nye in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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
May 2005Heavy RainNye-1.58 inches of rain in Nye
May 2005Heavy RainNye-3.80 inches of rain in 24 hours
July 1995Thunderstorm WindNye-Trees knocked down by wind in the town of Absarokee.
July 2022HailNye-no account filed
May 2018HailNye-no account filed
May 2018HailNye-no account filed
June 2011HailNye-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNye-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNye-no account filed
July 2001HailNye-no account filed
July 2001HailNye-no account filed
May 1997HailNye-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stillwater 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
Beehive5.6 miles14
Mountain View5.7 miles17
Limestone5.7 miles17
Dean6.6 miles14
Meyers Creek7.7 miles17
Mouat (historical)8.2 miles17
Fishtail16.2 miles12
Absarokee20.3 miles14

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 NyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7071047The 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 788348. 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.