Watkins, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Circle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59214. It stands on Trail Creek. The Survey maps it on the Watkins quadrangle.

Watkins within McCone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Watkins quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Circle quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Watkins between 2017 and 2020, burning about 620 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	422 acres	McCone County	DUCK CREEK
18 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	136 acres	McCone County	TRAIL - MCCONE
27 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Eastern Land Office	DUCK CREEK
26 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	McCone County	DUCK - MCCONE
17 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	McCone County	DIRTY CREEK - MCCONE
9 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Eastern Land Office	REDWATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCone County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Watkins in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2006: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Watkins	-	60 mph wind gust reported 5 miles south of Watkins.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Watkins	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCone 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Brockway	7.0 miles	6
White (historical)	9.2 miles	7
Paris (historical)	15.5 miles	7
Lower Summit	18.6 miles	7
Circle	19.1 miles	6
Coal Creek (historical)	21.4 miles	8
Lost Creek (historical)	24.3 miles	5
Weldon	25.5 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778146. 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.