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.
Population over time
2 figuresBelknap 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 158 | |
| 2020 | 161 | +3 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1937 USGS Thompson Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Thompson Falls quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Thompson Falls quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
- 1988 USGS Belknap quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Thompson Falls quadrangle1:100000
- 1999 USGS Belknap quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
92 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 41 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 1999 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | FLAT IRON LANDING |
| 20 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | MOSQUITO #2 |
| 2 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | MOSQUITO |
| 2 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Lolo National Forest | BLUE SLIDE |
| 18 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | EAST THORNE |
| 14 September 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | COUGAR PEAK |
| 13 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | FLAT IRON |
| 13 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | GUY HALL ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucky Luke | Gold, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Lucky Luke Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | 1905 | |
| Unknown | Kaolin | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Bentonite | Clay | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2006 | Hail | Belknap | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannonville (historical) | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Talc | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Thompson Falls | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| White Pine | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Childs | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Ashleys Settlement (historical) | 10.4 miles | 10 | |
| Snider | 10.9 miles | 10 | |
| Trout Creek | 15.7 miles | 13 |
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 Belknap | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5725141 | The 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.







