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Shawmut, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Judith Gap-Shawmut census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59078. The Survey maps it on the Shawmut quadrangle. 42 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,855 feet above sea level.

Shawmut within Wheatland County

Population over time

2 figures

Shawmut grew from 42 to 42 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
201042
2020420 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Shawmut between 2017 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
Natural1
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
24 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
27 June 2020Naturalunder an acreWheatland CountyFIRE 185

Every fire recorded in Wheatland County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shawmut in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 15 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025HailShawmut-Reported by spotter.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindShawmut-A wind gust of 77 mph was reported 5 miles east of Shawmut.
May 2018Flash FloodShawmut-The public reported flash flooding along Fish Creek about 14 miles south of Shawmut. Low lying areas and creeks flooded with some roads being impassable.
May 2018HailShawmut-There was also pea size hail 1 inch deep on the highway.
May 2005Heavy RainShawmut-1.25 inches of rain (24-hour total)
June 2005Funnel CloudShawmut-Wall cloud and funnel cloud just west of Shawmut
June 1999HailShawmut-Wheatland County Sheriff reported dime size hail in Shawmut and 5 miles west of Ryegate.
May 2020HailShawmut-no account filed
August 2019HailShawmut-no account filed
May 2018HailShawmut-no account filed
June 2014HailShawmut-no account filed
June 2009HailShawmut-no account filed
May 2007HailShawmut-no account filed
June 2005HailShawmut-no account filed
May 2005HailShawmut-no account filed
May 2005HailShawmut-no account filed
June 2001HailShawmut-no account filed
June 2001HailShawmut-no account filed
July 2001HailShawmut-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindShawmut-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wheatland 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
Hedgesville8.0 miles11
Winnecook8.4 miles11
Springwater Colony14.7 miles11
Living Springs17.2 miles11
Harlowton17.6 miles11
Judith Gap26.0 miles12
Duncan Ranch Colony27.4 miles16
Twodot29.6 miles16

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 ShawmutAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14704769The 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 806804. 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.