BlockWhitlash, Montana
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59545. It stands on Belle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitlash quadrangle. 4 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,950 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Shelby quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Whitlash quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Sweet Grass Hills quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Whitlash in 2019, burning under an acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Liberty County | 38567 |
Storms near this place
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitlash in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2000 | Hail | Whitlash | $1,000 | Car windows broken. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitlash | - | Mesonet station GW3546 WHITLASH SEVEN SOUTH measured a 72 mph wind gust. More exact timing estimated based on radar. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitlash | - | Mesonet station GW2412 Hill 2sw measured an 82 mph wind gust. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Whitlash | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Whitlash 8NW. |
| August 2013 | Heavy Rain | Whitlash | - | Heavy rain of 2.53 inches in 24 hours was reported 7 miles E of Whitlash, MT. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Whitlash | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Whitlash | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitlash | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Banks Place | 7.3 miles | 7 | |
| Hill | 9.8 miles | 6 | |
| Eagle Creek Colony | 14.6 miles | 6 | |
| Sage Creek Colony | 14.9 miles | 7 | |
| Alma (historical) | 23.8 miles | 7 | |
| Tiber | 29.1 miles | 6 | |
| Lothair | 30.2 miles | 6 | |
| Chester | 31.4 miles | 8 |
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 Whitlash | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7996539 | The 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 778432. 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.