Tiber, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59461. The Survey maps it on the Tiber quadrangle.

Tiber within Liberty 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.

1954 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Tiber quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Sweet Grass Hills quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Tiber between 2018 and 2019, burning about 8 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
25 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
26 June 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named
7 February 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Liberty County	38227
27 October 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Liberty County	38051

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tiber in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tiber	-	Mesonet station GW1986 Lothair 9N peak gust.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tiber	-	Mesonet station GW1986 Lothair 9N peak gust.
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Tiber	-	Mesonet station GW4063 Eagle Creek Colony measured a 55 kt gust.
August 1999	Hail	Tiber	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Tiber	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Tiber	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Tiber	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Chester	6.0 miles	8
Lothair	8.4 miles	6
Buelow	13.4 miles	7
Tiber Dam Camp	13.7 miles	6
George (historical)	14.5 miles	6
Eagle Creek Colony	14.7 miles	6
Joplin	16.7 miles	7
Hill	19.5 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 777632. 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.