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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Peerless quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Scobey quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2018Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Daniels County | FDH-MTLG37-350 |
| 13 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 7.5 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
Storms near this place
57 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Hail | Peerless | $150,000 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Hail | Peerless | - | Public reported hail up to the size of tennis balls. Car body and windshield damage was also reported. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Peerless | - | Public reported, via Facebook, ping-pong ball size hail. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Peerless | - | Public reported, via Facebook, quarter size hail. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Peerless | - | Public reported, via Facebook, 2 inches of rain. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Peerless | - | Public reported, via Facebook, a rainfall total of 2.18 inches near the town of Peerless. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Peerless | - | Public reported hail up to the size of hen eggs. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Peerless | - | Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of golf balls. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Peerless | - | Public reported golf ball size hail. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Peerless | - | Daniels County emergency manager reported water from Hell Creek running over Hell Creek Road, south of the town of Peerless. Times are estimated. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peerless | - | Public reported large trees blown down with significant damage. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Peerless | - | 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 2011 | Flood | Peerless | - | Runoff from a period of heavy rain resulted in flooding of the three forks of the Poplar River. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Peerless | - | Some crop damage noted with golfball size hail. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Peerless | - | Rotating wall cloud also reported. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Peerless | - | Public report of golfball size hail. |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Peerless | - | 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 2010 | Hail | Peerless | - | 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 2009 | Heavy Rain | Peerless | - | Some fields had some wash outs in them. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Peerless | - | The hail wiped out a nearby wheat crop. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peerless | - | Half inch hail accompanied the wind. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Peerless | - | 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 2005 | Hail | Peerless | - | The hail was accompanied by strong wind that blew over several mature poplar trees. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peerless | - | The wind broke many tree branches. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Peerless | - | Part of a local road in Peerless was washed out. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peerless | - | 58 mph wind gust reported 12 miles southsouthwest of Peerless. |
| May 1999 | Flood | Peerless | - | 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 1998 | Flash Flood | Peerless | - | Businesses in Peerless reported Front Street, which is the main street in Peerless, under one foot of water. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peerless | - | Thunderstorm winds and hail completely flattened wheat crops in a ten mile long path. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Peerless | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peerless | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butte Creek | 6.9 miles | 5 | |
| West Fork | 7.9 miles | 5 | |
| Four Buttes | 12.1 miles | 5 | |
| Carbert | 13.4 miles | 5 | |
| Ossette (historical) | 16.2 miles | 7 | |
| Scobey | 21.8 miles | 5 | |
| Kahle (historical) | 23.7 miles | 5 | |
| Julian (historical) | 27.4 miles | 5 |
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 Peerless | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18392458 | The 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.



