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Black Eagle, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Great Falls North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59414. It lies near Smelter Hill. The Survey maps it on the Northwest Great Falls quadrangle. 949 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,379 feet above sea level.

Black Eagle within Cascade County

On record in Black Eagle

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Black Eagle grew from 904 to 949 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
2010904
2020949+45 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

29 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Black Eagle between 2000 and 2019, burning about 330 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Fireworks7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land OfficeBLACK EAGLE
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCascade County57 COMMAND
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeMONARCH
29 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
25 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCentral Land OfficeBLACK EAGLE
23 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution40 acresCentral Land OfficeBLACK EAGLE
19 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
17 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined264 acresBenton Lake National Wildlife RefugeWILSON RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Black Eagle: 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Copper, Silver. 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
(Facility) Great Falls RefineryCopper, SilverPlant
Great Falls BentoniteBentoniteUnknown
Great Falls Slag DumpIronUnknown
Treasurelite Shale MineClayProspect
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kraus PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Montana Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zook No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cascade County

Storms near this place

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Eagle in 15 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBlack Eagle-Ambient weather sensor.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindBlack Eagle-Mesonet station KMTGREAT49 reported 52 knot wind gust.
August 2022Heavy RainBlack Eagle-Total overnight rainfall. Total time estimated.
July 2022HailBlack Eagle-Pictures submitted of large hail (1 inch) in Black Eagle.
July 2022Funnel CloudBlack Eagle-Reported rotating wall cloud a few miles north of Great Falls.
July 2022HailBlack Eagle-Trained spotter reported 1.75 inch (golf ball sized) hail 1 mile N of Black Eagle.
July 2022HailBlack Eagle-Photos submitted of nearly 2 inch hail 4 miles N of Black Eagle.
July 2019HailBlack Eagle-Public reported hail size of 1 inch near Black Eagle.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBlack Eagle-A trained spotter provided a photo of a sizable tree limb snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts at the corner of 29th St North and Central Ave.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBlack Eagle-Reports of a tree split and power line down near 19th St and Central. Several other limbs were down in the vicinity. Also, there were 5 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs down near 22nd Ave and Central.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBlack Eagle-Strong winds knocked down some tree branches up to 33 inches in length. Estimated wind gust 58 mph.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBlack Eagle-Measured in Black Eagle.
May 2014HailBlack Eagle-Hail measuring 1.00 inches was reported in Great Falls, MT.
May 2014HailBlack Eagle-Hail measuring 0.88 inches was reported in Great Falls, MT.
June 2006Funnel CloudBlack Eagle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cascade 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
Little Chicago (historical)0.2 miles16
Smelter Hill0.6 miles16
North Great Falls (historical)1.1 miles16
Countryside Village1.4 miles16
Boston Heights (historical)2.0 miles16
Great Falls2.1 miles16
Johnstown (historical)2.6 miles16
Watson (historical)3.5 miles16

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 Black EagleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q587040The 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 802039. 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.