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Alder, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sheridan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59710. It lies in Alder Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Alder quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,121 feet above sea level.

Alder within Madison County

On record in Alder

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Alder fell from 116 to 86 between 2000 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
2000116
2010103-13 (-11%)
202086-17 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Alder between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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
15 September 2020Debris and open burning10 acresMadison CountyWATERLOO BRIDGE
6 April 2019Naturalunder an acreMadison CountyJESSIES
28 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Alder: 8 past producers, 6 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Talc-Soapstone, Iron, Manganese. 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
Black MagicManganese, Copper, LeadUnknown
California GulchNiobium (Columbium)Unknown
Unnamed ProspectCopperOccurrenceMalachite
Alder Garnet DepositGarnetOccurrence
GilmanGold, SilverPast Producer
HansenGold, SilverPast Producer
Kelly DepositIronProspect1945
Kelly IronIronPast Producer1945
Magic MountainManganeseProspect
Ruby RiverGarnetUnknown

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alder in 1 storm report in 2013: 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
July 2013HailAlder-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 19 mi S of Alder, MT.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Ruby1.1 miles15
Laurin2.1 miles15
Junction5.8 miles21
Adobe (historical)6.6 miles21
Kingrey Place7.0 miles14
Central City (historical)8.1 miles21
Virginia City8.8 miles21
Brandon10.1 miles15

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 AlderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960550The 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 801986. 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.