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Williams, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Valier-Dupuyer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59486. The Survey maps it on the Valier East quadrangle.

Williams within Pondera County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Williams 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePondera CountyRAMBO BLOCKHEEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pondera County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Williams: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron, REE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Titanium-Iron OccurrenceTitanium, Iron, REEOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pondera County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Mesonet site reported a measured wind gust of 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Pondera 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
Wingina (historical)3.3 miles12
Belgian Colony (historical)5.8 miles12
Valier6.7 miles12
Manson7.1 miles11
Lone Tree (historical)8.3 miles12
New Miami Colony9.9 miles12
Abbott Lake (historical)10.7 miles12
Erickson (historical)11.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778511. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.