Vaughn, Montana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sun River Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59487. It stands on Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vaughn quadrangle. 737 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,366 feet above sea level.
On record in Vaughn
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
- Robert Vaughn Homesteadlisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresVaughn grew from 658 to 737 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 658 | |
| 2020 | 737 | +79 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Great Falls North quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Vaughn between 2017 and 2020, 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 18 August 2017 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 8 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Cascade County | LAUBACH FIRE |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 16 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Cascade County | SLUICE BOX |
| 16 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 1 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 29 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cascade County | NEEL CREEK FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vaughn in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Vaughn | $28,000 | 1 INCH HAIL |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Vaughn | - | Funnel cloud witnessed by NWS personnel and noted in a pilot report during a climb out of nearby Great Falls International Airport. Location estimated. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Trained spotter reports an estimated wind gust of at least 70 mph. Time estimated by spotter. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Public report from MPING for 1 inch hail. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Nws survey team determined damaging straight line winds with speeds of around 80 mph occurred across an area approx 1.7 miles long and 1.1 miles wide. Numerous wooden power poles snapped along i-15. Flattened grass and shrubs across the area. Pea size hail and water flooded local ditches and streams. Time based on radar. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Numerous power poles snapped along I-15. Pea size hail and water filling the ditch. Time/location estimated. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Vaughn | - | NWS Employee reported 1.5 inch hail 3 miles NNW of Vaughn. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Storm chaser submitted photos of very large hail along Interstate 15. Largest stone measured was 2.25 inches. Traffic on Interstate 15 was brought to a halt. Hail lasted for 10 minutes. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Public reports 1.25 inch diameter hail. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Spotter estimated a peak gust of 60-mph from virga. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Trained spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Hail measuring 1.75 inches was reported in Vaughn, MT. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Severe hail measuring 1.00 inches (approximately quarter sized) was reported 2 miles W of Vaughn, MT. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Golf ball sized hail, measuring 1.75 inches, was reported 8 miles NW of Vaughn. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Vaughn | - | Quarter sized hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported at Sun Prairie. |
| March 2011 | Flood | Vaughn | - | Vaughn Frontage Road was closed from mile marker 0 to mile marker 1.7 due to flooding. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Vaughn 3SE (Sun Prairie). |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Vaughn. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a 65 mph wind gust at Vaughn 3S. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Actual spotter designation is Power 6 SE. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vaughn | - | Actual spotter location is Vaughn 6 N. |
| August 1998 | Hail | Vaughn | - | BROKE WINDOWS AND DESTROYED CROPS |
| June 2003 | Hail | Vaughn | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Vaughn | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Vaughn | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Prairie | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Manchester | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Gordon | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Ulm | 9.2 miles | 16 | |
| Sun River | 9.5 miles | 13 | |
| Emerson Junction | 9.7 miles | 16 | |
| Fair Haven Colony | 11.7 miles | 16 | |
| Garrison (historical) | 12.4 miles | 16 |
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 Vaughn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q960948 | The 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 778007. 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.






