Plevna, Montana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Plevna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59344. It stands on South Fork Sandstone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plevna quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,808 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPlevna grew from 162 to 179 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 162 | |
| 2020 | 179 | +17 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Baker quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Plevna quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Plevna between 2016 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2016 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Eastern Land Office | CEDAR |
| 4 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Fallon County | STATION - FALLON |
| 17 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fallon County | PENNEL - FALLON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plevna in 39 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 25 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | $2,000 | Several trees downed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Plevna | - | Estimated hail that occurred near spotter. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Plevna | - | Estimated hail size. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | - | A moderate size tree was uprooted. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Plevna | - | A spotter reported broken windows in the home, as well as trees stripped of their leaves. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | - | A wind gust of 60 mph was estimated just southwest of Plevna. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | - | Limbs were broken off trees. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | - | An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported 11 miles northwest of Baker. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | - | 2 to 3 inch diameter Cottonwood tree branches broken by the wind. |
| June 2005 | Heavy Rain | Plevna | - | 1.50 inches of rain fell within 45 minutes resulting in minor flooding of creeks. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Plevna | - | Baseball sized hail damaged several homes and vehicles. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Plevna | - | Streams and creeks flooded |
| July 1999 | Hail | Plevna | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Plevna | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Plevna | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westmore | 7.6 miles | 8 | |
| Baker | 13.0 miles | 8 | |
| Cabin Creek | 14.5 miles | 8 | |
| Willard | 17.4 miles | 8 | |
| MacKenzie (historical) | 20.7 miles | 8 | |
| Ollie | 25.8 miles | 9 | |
| Webster | 28.9 miles | 8 | |
| Knobs (historical) | 37.7 miles | 8 |
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 Plevna | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q968903 | 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 775297. 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.




