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Wise River, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Big Hole Basin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59762. It stands on Wise River. The Survey maps it on the Wise River quadrangle. 42 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,653 feet above sea level.

Wise River within Beaverhead County

On record in Wise River

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Wise River between 1994 and 2019, burning about 764 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestADSON
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestCLINE FIRE
28 August 2013Naturalunder an acreButte Field OfficeTITAN
25 August 1994Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forestnot named
24 August 2017Naturalunder an acreButte Field OfficeJIMMIE NEW
21 August 2012Natural375 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBYWAY
9 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestJERRY CREEK FIRE
31 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution343 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestADSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Wise River: 10 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Copper, Lead. 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
Churchill MineSilver, Lead, GoldOccurrenceGold, Lead, Silver
Churchill MineLead, Gold, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Fraser PlacerLead, Silver, Copper, GoldProspect1950
Fraser PlacerSilver, Copper, Lead, MolybdenumProspect
HarrisonGold, Bismuth, Silver, TelluriumOccurrence
Keystone MineGold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Lime Kiln Gulch QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Lime Kiln Gulch QuarryLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Madison MineCopper, GoldPast Producer1865
Quartz Hill SynclinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Uranium, REE, Nickel, Chromium, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Beaverhead County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wise River in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWise River-RAWS station WRSM8 Wise River measured a 58 mph gust. Time estimated given RAWS only report once per hour.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWise River-Measured via WRSM8 near Wise River.
June 2020Heavy RainWise River-Mesonet station Wise River raws wrsm8.
June 2020Heavy RainWise River-Mesonet station Beaverhead Deerlodge no. 1, tr267.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindWise River-A 59 mph (51 kt) thunderstorm wind gust was reported at the Beaverhead Deerlodge mesonet station.
August 2009HailWise River-A severe thunderstorm dropped 2.75 inch diameter hail at Wise River 3S.
August 2009HailWise River-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Wise River.
August 2008HailWise River-A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Wise River.
August 2001HailWise River-Actual spotter location Wise River 3 W...0.23 inches of rain also fell in less than 5 minutes.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWise River-Thunderstorm winds damaged a barn roof and some windows at Wise River.
June 2005HailWise River-no account filed
July 1997HailWise River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beaverhead 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
Patterson Corner3.0 miles14
Dewey5.1 miles16
Lion City (historical)12.7 miles18
Glendale13.9 miles16
Coolidge (historical)21.3 miles13
Elkhorn21.3 miles13
Elkhorn Hot Springs24.7 miles13
Navy25.1 miles17

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 Wise RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8027464The 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 793434. 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.