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Boneau, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Big Sandy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59521. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Boy quadrangle. 365 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,317 feet above sea level.

Boneau within Chouteau County

Population over time

3 figures

Boneau grew from 190 to 365 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
2000190
2010380+190 (+100%)
2020365-15 (-4%)

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

627 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 627 fires within 5 miles of Boneau between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,036 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 157 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 burning189
Arson/incendiarism157
Fireworks69
Misuse of fire by a minor66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Equipment and vehicle use34
Natural25
Other causes12
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony8
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 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
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRocky Boy's AgencyBLAME
4 September 2020Smokingunder an acreChippewa Cree TribeRUSTY
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencySTEVE
30 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresRocky Boy's AgencyDAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chouteau 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
Parker School7.2 miles10
Rocky Crossing11.2 miles10
Big Sandy15.4 miles8
Warrick20.3 miles10
Verona20.9 miles9
Lonesome Prairie (historical)21.8 miles10
Eagleton24.2 miles7
Coal Banks Landing26.3 miles9

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 BoneauAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964268The 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 1853175. 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.