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Tusler, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Miles City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59301. It stands on Alkali Creek. The Survey maps it on the Miles City quadrangle.

Tusler within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Tusler between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,605 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use996 acresMiles City Field OfficeLIGHTHOUSE
26 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMiles City Field OfficeMATHEWS
23 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCuster CountyRANGER - CUSTER
18 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresEastern Land OfficeMILE MARKER 144
16 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMiles City Field OfficeMATTHEWS
13 August 2008Natural2.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeMAY
12 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeMATTHEWS
6 July 2013Fireworksunder an acreMiles City Field OfficeMATTHEWS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tusler in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 2 hail, 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
August 2013HailTusler-All the windows and siding on the north side of a house, shop, and camper were damaged. A pickup window was also broken.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindTusler-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported 4 miles NE of Murn.
August 2013HailTusler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Custer 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
Westwood Estates6.7 miles9
Miles City7.0 miles9
Kinsey7.8 miles9
Shirley11.8 miles8
Ulmer13.0 miles9
Bonfield14.0 miles8
Paragon15.6 miles9
Hilcrest (historical)16.2 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.

Wikidata item Q116390157The 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 777817. 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.