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Square Butte, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Geraldine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59446. It lies near Antelope Butte. The Survey maps it on the Square Butte quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,140 feet above sea level.

Square Butte within Chouteau County

On record in Square Butte

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Square Butte between 1992 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 August 1994Naturalunder an acreNorth Central Montana DistrictSQUAREBUTE
7 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNorth Central Montana DistrictNO 7
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresChouteau CountyFDH-MTLG19-129
5 August 2018Natural5.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
18 August 1992Natural15 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictSQUARE TOP
20 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.7 acresJudith Basin CountyFDH-MTLG36-68
15 July 2011Natural2.0 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictELK RUB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chouteau County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Square Butte in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 1 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
July 1999Tornado (F0)Square Butte$2,000no account filed
June 2016HailSquare Butte-A thunderstorm dropped 2 inch diameter hail at Square Butte 1SW. Also, 1.75 inch diameter hail was reported at Winifred 12W and 2 inch diameter hail at Winifred 10W.
June 2016HailSquare Butte-A thunderstorm dropped 2 inch diameter hail at Square Butte 1SW.
August 2014Heavy RainSquare Butte-Heavy rain, measuring 0.70 inches in 20 minutes, was reported.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSquare Butte-High wind gusts, measuring 56KT (64MPH), were reported.
May 2014HailSquare Butte-Hail 1.00 inches (quarter sized) reported about 2 mi N of Square Butte, MT.
August 2002HailSquare Butte-A severe thunderstorm produced 0.88 inch hail near Square Butte.

Every storm recorded in Chouteau 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
Lonetree (historical)4.9 miles13
Geraldine7.1 miles13
Montague17.7 miles13
Shonkin21.3 miles13
Patterson (historical)21.5 miles13
Big Sag27.9 miles13
Iliad29.3 miles8
Hopp (historical)31.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Square ButteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15278995The 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 777101. 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.