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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.

Vaughn within Cascade County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Vaughn 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.

YearPeople Change
2010658
2020737+79 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

10 since 2017

Regional 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/undetermined3
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
18 August 2017Other causes1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
8 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreCascade CountyLAUBACH FIRE
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
16 July 2020Smokingunder an acreCascade CountySLUICE BOX
16 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
1 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
29 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCascade CountyNEEL CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Storms near this place

26 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Tornado (F1)Vaughn$28,0001 INCH HAIL
September 1998Thunderstorm WindVaughn$1,000no account filed
May 2023Funnel CloudVaughn-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 2022Thunderstorm WindVaughn-Trained spotter reports an estimated wind gust of at least 70 mph. Time estimated by spotter.
July 2022HailVaughn-Public report from MPING for 1 inch hail.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindVaughn-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 2022Thunderstorm WindVaughn-Numerous power poles snapped along I-15. Pea size hail and water filling the ditch. Time/location estimated.
July 2022HailVaughn-NWS Employee reported 1.5 inch hail 3 miles NNW of Vaughn.
July 2022HailVaughn-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 2020HailVaughn-Public reports 1.25 inch diameter hail.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindVaughn-Spotter estimated a peak gust of 60-mph from virga.
June 2017HailVaughn-Trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
May 2014HailVaughn-Hail measuring 1.75 inches was reported in Vaughn, MT.
June 2013HailVaughn-Severe hail measuring 1.00 inches (approximately quarter sized) was reported 2 miles W of Vaughn, MT.
June 2012HailVaughn-Golf ball sized hail, measuring 1.75 inches, was reported 8 miles NW of Vaughn.
June 2012HailVaughn-Quarter sized hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported at Sun Prairie.
March 2011FloodVaughn-Vaughn Frontage Road was closed from mile marker 0 to mile marker 1.7 due to flooding.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindVaughn-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Vaughn 3SE (Sun Prairie).
August 2008Thunderstorm WindVaughn-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Vaughn.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindVaughn-A severe thunderstorm produced a 65 mph wind gust at Vaughn 3S.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindVaughn-Actual spotter designation is Power 6 SE.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindVaughn-Actual spotter location is Vaughn 6 N.
August 1998HailVaughn-BROKE WINDOWS AND DESTROYED CROPS
June 2003HailVaughn-no account filed
June 2000HailVaughn-no account filed
August 2000HailVaughn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cascade 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
Sun Prairie3.8 miles15
Manchester4.6 miles15
Gordon7.2 miles13
Ulm9.2 miles16
Sun River9.5 miles13
Emerson Junction9.7 miles16
Fair Haven Colony11.7 miles16
Garrison (historical)12.4 miles16

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 VaughnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960948The 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.