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Sumatra, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the North of the Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59083. The Survey maps it on the Sumatra quadrangle. It stands 3,202 feet above sea level.

Sumatra within Rosebud County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sumatra between 2018 and 2019, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.3 acresRosebud CountyGREBE - ROSEBUD
10 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreEastern Land OfficeHWY 12 MM223

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rosebud County

Storms near this place

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumatra in 26 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 19 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
March 2014FloodSumatra-County officials and the Montana Department of Transportation reported small stream and low land flooding. Numerous roads and some highways were reported to have water flowing across them.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSumatra-A wind gust of 60 mph was estimated southeast of Melstone.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSumatra-Dime size hail was also reported.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindSumatra-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph from a thunderstorm outflow was measured 6 miles southeast of Melstone.
June 2007HailSumatra-Windows were broken by golf ball size hail.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSumatra-Severe wind gusts occurred for a period of 20 minutes.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSumatra-60 mph thunderstorm wind gust
June 1999HailSumatra-Spotter report of dime size hail.
April 1999HailSumatra-Nickel sized hail was reported in Sumatra.
July 2019HailSumatra-no account filed
July 2019HailSumatra-no account filed
June 2018HailSumatra-no account filed
May 2018HailSumatra-no account filed
June 2011HailSumatra-no account filed
July 2011HailSumatra-no account filed
August 2008HailSumatra-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSumatra-no account filed
June 2005HailSumatra-no account filed
June 2005HailSumatra-no account filed
June 2005HailSumatra-no account filed
May 2003HailSumatra-no account filed
July 2002HailSumatra-no account filed
July 2001HailSumatra-no account filed
July 2001HailSumatra-no account filed
July 2001HailSumatra-no account filed
July 2001HailSumatra-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rosebud 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
Galbraith4.2 miles9
Hibbard (historical)5.3 miles9
Ingomar9.9 miles9
Bascom10.7 miles9
Ahles22.6 miles9
Vananda33.0 miles9
Finch38.2 miles9
Howard (historical)41.4 miles9

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 SumatraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7636991The 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 777301. 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.