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Pendroy, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Choteau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59467. The Survey maps it on the Pendroy quadrangle. 25 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,272 feet above sea level.

Pendroy within Teton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

14 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Pendroy between 2017 and 2020, burning about 362 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
27 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTeton CountyJOHNSON HILLTOP
23 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use300 acresCentral Land Officenot named
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTeton CountyJOHNSON
2 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
19 August 2020Natural1.0 acresTeton CountyJOHNS
14 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land OfficePENDROY
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
21 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTeton CountyJITTERBUG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pendroy: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, REE, Titanium. 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
Iron-Titanium OccurrenceIron, REE, TitaniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pendroy in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 hail, 6 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPendroy-Measured via station MTPND near Pendroy.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPendroy-Pendroy Montana DOT station reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 76 mph.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindPendroy-High winds measuring 50KT (58MPH) were reported 2 miles NW of Pendroy, MT.
July 2008HailPendroy-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Pendroy.
July 2008HailPendroy-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Pendroy 7WSW.
July 2008HailPendroy-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Pendroy 7WSW.
July 2008HailPendroy-A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Pendroy 13SW. Damage to a vegetable garden was reported.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindPendroy-no account filed
May 2003HailPendroy-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindPendroy-no account filed
June 1995HailPendroy-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindPendroy-no account filed
June 1995HailPendroy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teton 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
Bynum6.6 miles11
Agawam8.6 miles11
Rockport Colony9.4 miles12
Miller Colony10.2 miles11
Malone11.5 miles11
Koyl12.1 miles11
Farmington14.6 miles11
Burton (historical)16.3 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 PendroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15265869The 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 775145. 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.