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.
Population over time
2 figuresShawmut 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 42 | |
| 2020 | 42 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1889 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Big Snowy Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Roundup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Shawmut quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Harlowton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 27 June 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Wheatland County | FIRE 185 |
Storms near this place
20 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Shawmut | - | Reported by spotter. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawmut | - | A wind gust of 77 mph was reported 5 miles east of Shawmut. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Shawmut | - | 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 2018 | Hail | Shawmut | - | There was also pea size hail 1 inch deep on the highway. |
| May 2005 | Heavy Rain | Shawmut | - | 1.25 inches of rain (24-hour total) |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Shawmut | - | Wall cloud and funnel cloud just west of Shawmut |
| June 1999 | Hail | Shawmut | - | Wheatland County Sheriff reported dime size hail in Shawmut and 5 miles west of Ryegate. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Shawmut | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawmut | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedgesville | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Winnecook | 8.4 miles | 11 | |
| Springwater Colony | 14.7 miles | 11 | |
| Living Springs | 17.2 miles | 11 | |
| Harlowton | 17.6 miles | 11 | |
| Judith Gap | 26.0 miles | 12 | |
| Duncan Ranch Colony | 27.4 miles | 16 | |
| Twodot | 29.6 miles | 16 |
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 Shawmut | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14704769 | 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 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.





