Zurich, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chinook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59547. It stands on Fifteenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Zurich quadrangle.

Zurich within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1904 USGS Chinook quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1912 USGS Zurich quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Zurich quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Havre quadrangle1:100000

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zurich in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2014: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Zurich	-	High wind gusts, estimated at 50KT (58MPH), were reported along Highway 2 east of Chinook. Winds were responsible for blowing down a tree.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Zurich	-	High wind gusts, estimated at 50KT (58MPH), were reported to hav knocked a tree down along Highway 2 east of Chinook, MT.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Zurich	-	Dam operator reported the failure of Lybeck Reservoir and BR-12 Reservoir with flood waters affecting Fifteen Mile Creek.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Zurich	-	Rainfall amounts of over two and one half inches were reported in the warned area. No flash flooding reports received.
July 2000	Hail	Zurich	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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
North Fork	4.3 miles	10
Hollandville (historical)	10.3 miles	10
Chinook	10.7 miles	10
Harlem	13.5 miles	11
North Harlem Colony	14.5 miles	11
Fort Belknap Agency	15.7 miles	7
Ramburg (historical)	15.8 miles	10
Minnesota Settlement (historical)	16.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 778767. 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.