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Belfry, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Red Lodge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59008. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belfry quadrangle. 193 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,862 feet above sea level.

Belfry within Carbon County

On record in Belfry

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

Population over time

2 figures

Belfry fell from 218 to 193 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
2010218
2020193-25 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Belfry between 1995 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
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
7 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeSTRAW FIRE
17 September 2009Debris and open burning80 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestDRY CREEK ASSIST
22 August 2010Naturalunder an acreBillings Field OfficeDRAW
8 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeHIGHWAY 72
8 July 2017Naturalunder an acreBillings Field OfficeSILVER TIP
26 July 1995Debris and open burning20 acresMiles City Field OfficeSILVERTIP
25 July 2020Firearms and explosives use12 acresBillings Field OfficeHOLLENBECK DRAW
20 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeCORN FIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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 Belfry: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium. 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
Red Lodge WashoeChromiumPast Producer
Clarks Fork PlacerGoldOccurrence
Clarks Fork PlacerGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belfry in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2013: 4 hail, 1 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 2007Heavy RainBelfry-Rain totals from the event were 1.85 inches in 24 hours with a storm total of 1.94 inches.
April 1999HailBelfry-A spotter reported golf ball sized hail.
June 2013HailBelfry-no account filed
June 2006HailBelfry-no account filed
June 2006HailBelfry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Golden (historical)5.7 miles10
Bearcreek8.1 miles15
Eagle (historical)8.4 miles15
Chance9.5 miles13
Wade9.9 miles10
Caledonia (historical)11.1 miles15
Scotch Coulee (historical)11.1 miles15
Washoe11.1 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 BelfryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q815446The 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 802021. 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.