Wheeler, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the South Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59230. The Survey maps it on the Wheeler quadrangle.

Wheeler within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1943 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Wheeler quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler between 1994 and 2015, burning about 286 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
1 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	NATOUT1
9 August 2006	Natural	100 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	VALLEY CO. ASSIST 2
31 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	POWERHOUSE
24 July 2013	Natural	8.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	HORSE PASTURE
30 June 2003	Natural	under an acre	Miles City Field Office	ARTZ COULE
19 June 1997	Natural	3.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	BEACH#1
11 April 2014	Firearms and explosives use	4.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	RUSSIAN MOOSE
18 November 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	169 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	SCOUT ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheeler in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. 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 1997	Hail	Wheeler	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
Delano Heights (historical)	0.6 miles	11
Lakeview (historical)	0.6 miles	11
Minot (historical)	0.6 miles	9
New Deal (historical)	2.4 miles	11
Square Deal (historical)	2.9 miles	11
Fort Peck	3.0 miles	11
Park Grove	3.5 miles	11
Free Deal (historical)	4.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778340. 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.