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Outlook, Montana

4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Plentywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59252. The Survey maps it on the Outlook quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,349 feet above sea level.

Outlook within Sheridan County

On record in Outlook

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

Population over time

2 figures

Outlook grew from 47 to 84 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201047
202084+37 (+79%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Outlook in 1999, burning about 6,952 acres in total. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
31 October 1999Railroad operations and maintenance6,952 acresNortheastern Land OfficeOUTLOOK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Outlook in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 18 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire. 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
October 1999WildfireOutlook$6,000,000no account filed
August 2005HailOutlook$15,000Three vehicles had broken windows. The metal roof of a building was damaged.
August 2006HailOutlook$2,000Several windows were broken along with a skylight.
July 2006HailOutlook$2,000Two windows were smashed on a house and some barn windows were broken. Roof and shingle damage also occurred and there was significant crop damage.
August 2024HailOutlook-Public reported hail up to the size of golf balls.
August 2024HailOutlook-Public reported, via Facebook, hail up to the size of hen eggs.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOutlook-Public reported, via Facebook, a 79 mph thunderstorm wind gust measured on a Davis weather station.
June 2021HailOutlook-Public reported hail up to the size of quarters.
June 2020HailOutlook-Trained spotter reported half-dollar size hail. Time estimated from radar.
June 2020HailOutlook-Trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
June 2020HailOutlook-Trained spotter reported golf ball size hail.
July 2019HailOutlook-Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2017HailOutlook-Public reported, via social media, quarter sized hail.
August 2011HailOutlook-Spotter reported hail stones up to the size of nickels.
August 2011HailOutlook-Sheridan County Sheriff reported ping pong ball-sized hail stones.
August 2010HailOutlook-Brief period of hail occurred.
July 2006HailOutlook-Mostly Penny sized hail, but also some half dollar sized.
July 2007HailOutlook-no account filed
July 2006HailOutlook-no account filed
August 2005HailOutlook-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOutlook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Archer6.8 miles4
Daleview8.5 miles4
Midby (historical)9.6 miles4
Redstone9.9 miles4
Raymond10.5 miles4
Plentywood13.8 miles4
Wanso (historical)18.0 miles4
Dooley20.6 miles4

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 OutlookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958002The 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 775006. 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.