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Oswego, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Fort Peck Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59201. It stands on East Fork Oswego Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oswego quadrangle.

Oswego within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Oswego between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,999 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 5 were 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Peck AgencyAMELIA S
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Peck AgencyLONG FINN
5 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFort Peck AgencySTAFNE
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFort Peck AgencyS. TOM GREENS
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFort Peck AgencyFOURSTAR
2 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance213 acresFort Peck AgencyWINDY
17 September 2000Smoking4.0 acresFort Peck AgencyHORSESHOE
16 September 1994Debris and open burning30 acresFort Peck AgencyOSWEGO S.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Oswego: 8 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oswego in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2021HailOswego-Public reported golf ball sized hail.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOswego-A 58 mph wind gust was measured at the Oswego 4N mesonet station.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOswego-Mesonet site west of Wolf Point measured 72 mph winds.
July 2013HailOswego-Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail.
July 2013HailOswego-Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail covering the ground.
July 2013HailOswego-Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of nickels. Location on the edge of the storm.
June 2011FloodOswego-Minor flooding was occurring at Wolf Point where stages exceeded Flood Stage by about 1.5 feet (estimated from the river gauge at Wolf Point).
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOswego-Trees being bent over and branches snapped.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindOswego-58 mph wind reported by spotter 6 miles north of Oswego.
May 2005HailOswego-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindOswego-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindOswego-no account filed
August 2002HailOswego-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOswego-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindOswego-no account filed
October 2000HailOswego-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindOswego-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindOswego-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodOswego-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
Frazer8.5 miles10
Bakers (historical)18.1 miles8
Wiota (historical)20.3 miles11
Lustre23.1 miles7
Nashua25.7 miles11
Idlewile (historical)29.1 miles11
Free Deal (historical)29.6 miles11
Park Dale (historical)29.7 miles11

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 OswegoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7108218The 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 774988. 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.