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Volborg, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1973. It stands in the South Custer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59351. It stands on Shelter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Volborg quadrangle.

Volborg within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Volborg between 1998 and 2017, burning about 926 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 August 2016Natural5.9 acresEastern Land OfficeROE - ROSEBUD
17 August 1998Natural10 acresMiles City Field OfficeRODEO
24 July 2003Natural10 acresMiles City Field OfficeDEER CREEK
20 July 2017Natural888 acresMiles City Field OfficeBASIN CREEK
11 July 2011Natural1.7 acresMiles City Field OfficeBROUGHTON
6 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresEastern Land OfficeSHELTER

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Storms near this place

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Volborg in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 27 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 2025HailVolborg-Report from mping.
July 2025HailVolborg-Measured by spotter.
June 2019HailVolborg-One pasture field and at last one alfalfa field were reported destroyed.
July 2019Flash FloodVolborg-Very heavy rain was reported 6 miles west/northwest of Powderville. Corral Creek was well out of its banks with water flowing over roadways.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindVolborg-Winds estimated at 70 mph resulted in power outages southwest of Mizpah.
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Volborg-A brief tornado was reported by an NWS employee.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindVolborg-Several outbuildings that were being used for livestock were destroyed along Highway 59.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindVolborg-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was reported in Volborg.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindVolborg-Window broken by wind blown tree limb.
May 2005Heavy RainVolborg-2.28 inches of rain fell in Volborg (24 hour total), 0.96 inches fell in less than an hour.
July 1999HailVolborg-Spotter report of dime size hail.
July 1995HailVolborg-A barn roof was picked up and blown across a yard.
August 2024HailVolborg-no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindVolborg-no account filed
May 2020HailVolborg-no account filed
August 2019HailVolborg-no account filed
September 2019HailVolborg-no account filed
April 2018HailVolborg-no account filed
June 2018HailVolborg-no account filed
July 2016HailVolborg-no account filed
August 2013HailVolborg-no account filed
July 2012HailVolborg-no account filed
July 2011HailVolborg-no account filed
July 2011HailVolborg-no account filed
June 2005HailVolborg-no account filed
June 2005HailVolborg-no account filed
June 2005HailVolborg-no account filed
July 2003HailVolborg-no account filed
June 2002HailVolborg-no account filed
June 2002HailVolborg-no account filed
July 2001HailVolborg-no account filed
June 2001HailVolborg-no account filed
June 2001HailVolborg-no account filed
June 2001HailVolborg-no account filed
July 1997HailVolborg-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindVolborg-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
Beebe15.8 miles8
Garland19.4 miles8
Etna (historical)24.4 miles8
Cutler (historical)27.8 miles8
Moon Creek (historical)31.1 miles8
Kimball (historical)34.2 miles8
Oneill (historical)35.2 miles8
Mizpah35.4 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.

Wikipedia article on VolborgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7940007The 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 778042. 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.