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Toston, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Townsend East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59643. It stands on Sixmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Toston quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,917 feet above sea level.

Toston within Broadwater County

On record in Toston

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Toston fell from 108 to 100 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010108
2020100-8 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Toston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 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
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.1 acresHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestMISSOURI RIVER
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
11 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use50 acresHelena - Lewis and Clark National Forestnot named
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBroadwater CountyGREAVES ROAD
4 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
15 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
24 June 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National Forestnot named
23 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broadwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Toston: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
CleoSilver, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Kolberg MillGoldPlant
L and R PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Broadwater County

Storms near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toston in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindToston-Mesonet station MTM83 Toston Sw2 measured a 60 mph wind gust.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindToston-Toston MT mesonet measured a 64 mph wind gust.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindToston-Mesonet station MTTOS Toston Bridge Us-287 Mp 87.0 measured a 62 mph gust.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindToston-Local officials report roads closed due to downed power lines and trees.
June 2019HailToston-Pea-size to quarter-size hail cover the ground.
July 2013HailToston-Hail measuring 1.25 inches (half dollar sized) was reported in Toston, MT.
June 2011HailToston-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Toston 14E.
August 2009HailToston-A thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Toston.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindToston-A severe thunderstorm near Toston tore the roof off a shed. The roof traveled 75 feet, before landing on top of a vehicle.
August 2002HailToston-A severe thunderstorm produced 1.75 inch hail at Toston 13SW.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindToston-Peak wind gust estimated at least 60 mph as Agrimet automated station reported 57 mph winds averaged over 15 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Broadwater 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
Brewer3.2 miles15
Lombard5.0 miles14
Holker6.0 miles19
Parker8.8 miles19
Crow Creek City (historical)8.8 miles19
Radersburg10.2 miles19
Deep Creek (historical)10.4 miles19
Townsend10.9 miles17

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 TostonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q590839The 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 777714. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.