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Oilmont, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sunburst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59466. The Survey maps it on the Oilmont quadrangle. It stands 3,501 feet above sea level.

Oilmont within Toole County

On record in Oilmont

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

5 surveys from 8 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Oilmont between 2018 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
15 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreToole CountyGLEN HABETS
11 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreToole CountyJESSE ROLF
1 November 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
1 November 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
11 January 2019Naturalunder an acreToole CountyHESLA RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Toole County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oilmont in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindOilmont-Trained spotter reported severe wind gust of 62 mph via social media.
July 2011HailOilmont-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Oilmont.

Every storm recorded in Toole 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
Ferdig3.6 miles9
Ohio Camp6.4 miles9
Kevin6.6 miles8
Aloe10.4 miles11
Sunburst10.5 miles9
Kippen12.7 miles8
Virden15.3 miles8
Shelby16.2 miles8

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 OilmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7081490The 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 774918. 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.