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Teigen, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winnett South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59032. The Survey maps it on the Teigen quadrangle. It stands 3,192 feet above sea level.

Teigen within Petroleum County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Teigen between 1995 and 2019, burning about 758 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
7 September 1998Natural150 acresCharles M. Russell National Wildlife RefugeASSIST5
7 September 1998Natural600 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictTEIGEN
2 August 1996Natural5.0 acresCharles M. Russell National Wildlife RefugeASSIST 4
17 August 1995Naturalunder an acreNorth Central Montana DistrictTEIGEN
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePetroleum CountyFDH-MTLG55-65
27 July 2001Naturalunder an acreNorth Central Montana DistrictDOUBLE S
28 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictTIEGEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Petroleum County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Teigen in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 hail, 4 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTeigen-The War Horse NW site (Montana Climate Office) recorded a wind gust of 62 mph.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTeigen-The wind gust occurred at the Winnett Southwest MCO mesonet.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindTeigen-The War Horse NW HydroMet site (WRHM8) from the Montana Climate Office Mesonet recorded a 59 mph wind gust.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindTeigen-The War Horse NW HydroMet site (WRHM8) from the Montana Climate Office Mesonet recorded a 61 mph wind gust.
August 2021HailTeigen-Public reported half dollar size hail.
June 2016HailTeigen-Public reported quarter sized hail.
July 2004HailTeigen-no account filed
June 2003HailTeigen-no account filed
August 2000HailTeigen-no account filed
August 1999HailTeigen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Petroleum 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
Blakeslee (historical)11.6 miles8
Winnett13.2 miles8
Flatwillow17.6 miles6
Wallview (historical)20.1 miles6
Hoyle (historical)22.9 miles8
Shay (historical)23.5 miles8
Kelley29.1 miles6
Dovetail (historical)29.6 miles8

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 TeigenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7694986The 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 777448. 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.