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Alberton, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Alberton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59820. The Survey maps it on the Alberton quadrangle. 452 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,054 feet above sea level.

Alberton within Mineral County

On record in Alberton

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 10 records

Population over time

2 figures

Alberton grew from 420 to 452 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010420
2020452+32 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Alberton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,897 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 1 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
Natural55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Debris and open burning37
Recreation and ceremony17
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreLolo National ForestNATURAL PIER BRIDGE
21 September 2003Smokingunder an acreLolo National ForestRANGER STATION
20 September 2018Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestSAWMILL 2
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLolo National ForestWEST NINEMILE 3
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLolo National ForestWEST NINEMILE 2
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLolo National ForestWEST NINEMILE 1
19 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreLolo National ForestMILE MARKER 76 #2
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestPLATEAU

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alberton: 1 unknown, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Beryllium, Clay. 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
Torgelson PropertyClayProducer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
White Cap ProspectBerylliumProspect

Every working recorded in Mineral County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alberton in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018Thunderstorm WindAlberton$15,000Strong winds caused several Ponderosa pine trees to be uprooted. These trees damaged a well house and an all-terrain vehicle.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAlberton-Thunderstorm winds blew down 3 to 4 large trees. The trees had diameters estimated to be between 1 and 3 feet along the Oregon Lakes Trail.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindAlberton-A tree was reported down over I-90.
June 2006HailAlberton-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindAlberton-no account filed
August 2003WildfireAlberton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mineral 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
Cyr5.9 miles10
Tarkio14.1 miles9
Quartz16.1 miles8
Lozeau18.1 miles8
Westfall18.6 miles8
Crescent City (historical)18.7 miles8
Riverbend21.7 miles8
Cedar Mouth (historical)24.0 miles8

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 AlbertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q956290The 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 801984. 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.