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Peerless, Montana

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Scobey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59253. The Survey maps it on the Peerless quadrangle. 23 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,851 feet above sea level.

Peerless within Daniels County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Peerless between 2018 and 2020, burning about 26 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
Debris and open burning1
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
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresDaniels CountyFDH-MTLG37-350
13 July 2018Debris and open burning7.5 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Daniels County

Storms near this place

57 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peerless in 57 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 37 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 3 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
August 2000HailPeerless$150,000no account filed
August 2024HailPeerless-Public reported hail up to the size of tennis balls. Car body and windshield damage was also reported.
July 2021HailPeerless-Public reported, via Facebook, ping-pong ball size hail. Time estimated from radar.
July 2021HailPeerless-Public reported, via Facebook, quarter size hail.
July 2021Heavy RainPeerless-Public reported, via Facebook, 2 inches of rain.
June 2021Heavy RainPeerless-Public reported, via Facebook, a rainfall total of 2.18 inches near the town of Peerless.
July 2019HailPeerless-Public reported hail up to the size of hen eggs.
July 2018HailPeerless-Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of golf balls. Time estimated from radar.
July 2018HailPeerless-Public reported golf ball size hail.
March 2017FloodPeerless-Daniels County emergency manager reported water from Hell Creek running over Hell Creek Road, south of the town of Peerless. Times are estimated.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPeerless-Public reported large trees blown down with significant damage.
June 2011FloodPeerless-Two to three inches of new rainfall on saturated soils resulted in flooding in places such as the East Fork of the Poplar River.
June 2011FloodPeerless-Runoff from a period of heavy rain resulted in flooding of the three forks of the Poplar River.
July 2010HailPeerless-Some crop damage noted with golfball size hail.
July 2010HailPeerless-Rotating wall cloud also reported.
July 2010HailPeerless-Public report of golfball size hail.
July 2010Funnel CloudPeerless-A wall cloud had several fingers of scud in the area. The report was never officially confirmed by law enforcement or photographs of the cloud, but given the intense rotation of the storm, a brief funnel cloud could have been possible.
August 2010HailPeerless-At 1845 MST 3 NE of Peerless, 2.75 inch hail reported by the public. At 1850 MST 3 miles E of Peerless 1 inch hail was reported.
August 2009Heavy RainPeerless-Some fields had some wash outs in them.
July 2008HailPeerless-The hail wiped out a nearby wheat crop.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPeerless-Half inch hail accompanied the wind.
July 2008HailPeerless-The hail covered the ground and stripped most of the leaves from the trees. An estimated wind gust to 50 mph accompanied the hail.
August 2005HailPeerless-The hail was accompanied by strong wind that blew over several mature poplar trees.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindPeerless-The wind broke many tree branches.
May 2004Flash FloodPeerless-Part of a local road in Peerless was washed out.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindPeerless-58 mph wind gust reported 12 miles southsouthwest of Peerless.
May 1999FloodPeerless-Spotters reported 1.5 - 2 inches of rain falling in less than 3 hours. The rain caused local streams to become bankful and ponding of water on area secondary roads.
July 1998Flash FloodPeerless-Businesses in Peerless reported Front Street, which is the main street in Peerless, under one foot of water.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindPeerless-Thunderstorm winds and hail completely flattened wheat crops in a ten mile long path.
August 2010HailPeerless-no account filed
July 2009HailPeerless-no account filed
August 2005HailPeerless-no account filed
August 2005HailPeerless-no account filed
August 2005HailPeerless-no account filed
May 2004HailPeerless-no account filed
July 2001HailPeerless-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindPeerless-no account filed
August 2000HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1999HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1999Funnel CloudPeerless-no account filed
July 1999HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1999HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1999HailPeerless-no account filed
June 1999HailPeerless-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindPeerless-no account filed
June 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
July 1998HailPeerless-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindPeerless-no account filed
June 1996HailPeerless-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPeerless-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daniels 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
Butte Creek6.9 miles5
West Fork7.9 miles5
Four Buttes12.1 miles5
Carbert13.4 miles5
Ossette (historical)16.2 miles7
Scobey21.8 miles5
Kahle (historical)23.7 miles5
Julian (historical)27.4 miles5

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 PeerlessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18392458The 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 775139. 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.