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Whitetail, Montana

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Scobey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59276. The Survey maps it on the Whitetail quadrangle. 9 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,503 feet above sea level.

Whitetail within Daniels County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitetail in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindWhitetail$15,000Daniels County dispatch relayed a public report of 3 grain hopper bins blown over by thunderstorm wind gusts, along with significant crop loss in the area.
July 2003LightningWhitetail$5,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWhitetail$1,000no account filed
August 2024HailWhitetail-A trained spotter reported hail up to the size of golf balls.
July 2022HailWhitetail-Public reported, via Facebook, hail up to the size of ping pong balls.
July 2022HailWhitetail-A trained spotter reported hail up to the size of half dollars along with heavy rainfall.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindWhitetail-Border patrol at the Port of Scobey estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2013HailWhitetail-DHS at the Port of Scobey reported quarter-sized hail.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWhitetail-Public report of winds estimated to be up to 60 mph. There are not many trees or building in the area for there to be any significant damage with this gust.
August 2011HailWhitetail-Spotter reported nickel-sized hail covering the ground. Also measured 1.60 inches of rain.
August 2011HailWhitetail-Spotter reported quarter-sized hail piled up against buildings 5 hours after the event took place. Also, two inches of rain were reported.
August 2011HailWhitetail-Public reported nickel-sized hail stones.
June 2009HailWhitetail-Mostly dime-sized hail with some quarter-sized hail. Reported at the Port of Whitetail.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitetail-Strong winds and half inch hail destroyed a wheat field which was ready to be harvested.
August 2010HailWhitetail-no account filed
June 2009HailWhitetail-no account filed
June 2008HailWhitetail-no account filed
July 2008HailWhitetail-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWhitetail-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWhitetail-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWhitetail-no account filed
June 2005HailWhitetail-no account filed
August 2000HailWhitetail-no account filed
May 1999HailWhitetail-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitetail-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWhitetail-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWhitetail-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daniels 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
Flaxville6.3 miles5
Madoc8.7 miles5
Navajo9.0 miles5
Julian (historical)10.9 miles5
Scobey15.4 miles5
Pleasant Prairie21.3 miles5
Four Buttes24.2 miles5
Kahle (historical)27.2 miles5

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 WhitetailAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7996295The 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 793236. 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.

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.