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Azure, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rocky Boy's census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59521. It lies near Big Knife Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Boy quadrangle. 314 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,500 feet above sea level.

Azure within Hill County

Population over time

3 figures

Azure grew from 253 to 314 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
2000253
2010286+33 (+13%)
2020314+28 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

704 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 704 fires within 5 miles of Azure between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,826 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 146 were 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 burning243
Arson/incendiarism146
Fireworks78
Misuse of fire by a minor72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Natural36
Equipment and vehicle use33
Other causes17
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Firearms and explosives use1

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresRocky Boy's AgencyTENDOY
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencySTRIKE
7 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyNO CHANCE
7 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresRocky Boy's Agencynot named
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyANDERSON
5 September 2020Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresChippewa Cree TribeARBOR
4 September 2020Smokingunder an acreChippewa Cree TribeRUSTY
4 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyBUZZY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill 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
Sangrey1.5 miles9
Rocky Boy's Agency3.1 miles9
Saint Pierre4.6 miles10
Shambo Springs7.1 miles10
Shambo (historical)8.2 miles10
Laredo10.0 miles10
Box Elder11.3 miles10
Oscar (historical)13.2 miles10

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 AzureAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2835364The 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 2413614. 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.