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Belknap, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Thompson Falls-West End census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59873. It stands on Sqaylth-kwum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belknap quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,619 feet above sea level.

Belknap within Sanders County

Population over time

2 figures

Belknap grew from 158 to 161 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
2010158
2020161+3 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Belknap between 1992 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 7 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
Natural41
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLolo National ForestFLAT IRON LANDING
20 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLolo National ForestMOSQUITO #2
2 September 2011Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestMOSQUITO
2 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLolo National ForestBLUE SLIDE
18 September 1998Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestEAST THORNE
14 September 2002Smokingunder an acreLolo National ForestCOUGAR PEAK
13 September 2014Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestFLAT IRON
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestGUY HALL ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanders County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Belknap: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Gold. 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
Lucky LukeGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Lucky Luke MineCopper, Gold, Silver, LeadPast Producer1905
UnknownKaolinProducer
Unnamed BentoniteClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Sanders County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belknap in 1 storm report in 2006: 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
August 2006HailBelknap-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanders 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
Shannonville (historical)1.6 miles13
Talc4.2 miles13
Thompson Falls5.6 miles13
White Pine6.8 miles13
Childs9.0 miles9
Ashleys Settlement (historical)10.4 miles10
Snider10.9 miles10
Trout Creek15.7 miles13

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 BelknapAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5725141The 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 779665. 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.