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Sprole, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Fort Peck Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59255. It lies near White Shield Island. The Survey maps it on the Sprole quadrangle.

Sprole within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

274 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Sprole between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,038 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 50 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism50
Smoking49
Debris and open burning28
Recreation and ceremony24
Equipment and vehicle use19
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Fireworks10
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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
9 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresFort Peck AgencyDUPREE
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Peck Agency3MIERT1
8 September 1994Recreation and ceremony10 acresFort Peck AgencyDUPREE
7 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFort Peck Agency3MIEINDHWY
6 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.1 acresFort Peck AgencyBIRD
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Peck Agency2MIERT1
4 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use7.5 acresFort Peck AgencyBLACK
4 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFort Peck AgencyMURPHVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sprole in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 5 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSprole-Report occurred at the Poplar RAWS station.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSprole-The Poplar RAWS site (POPM8) measured a 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSprole-An 85 mph wind gust was recorded at the Poplar RAWS site.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSprole-Many cottonwood trees blown over. Three sections of a pivot irrigator were blown over. A barn roof was damaged. Event time estimated by radar.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindSprole-Taken at the Poplar RAWS station east of Poplar.

Every storm recorded in Roosevelt 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
Deertail Indian Village (historical)1.4 miles6
Poplar7.2 miles6
Brockton8.3 miles9
Calais13.4 miles9
Chelsea14.7 miles6
Anderson17.8 miles7
Fort Kipp18.6 miles7
Boyd (historical)22.2 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122563886The 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 777095. 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.