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Boulder, Montana

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59632. It lies near Capital Hill. The Survey maps it on the Boulder East quadrangle. 1,201 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,908 feet above sea level.

Boulder within Jefferson County

On record in Boulder

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Boulder grew from 1,183 to 1,201 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
20101,183
20201,201+18 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Boulder between 1994 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
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
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButte Field OfficeBOOMERANG
22 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPOORE
12 September 2007Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPORCUPINE
7 August 2008Naturalunder an acreButte Field OfficeFREE ENTERPRISE MINE
7 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeBOULDER POWERLINE
6 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
6 August 1998Natural1.2 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBOULDER HOT SPRINGS
23 August 1998Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestMCCARTY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Boulder: 34 past producers, 8 prospects, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Lead, 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
Amazon DistrictSilver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, ArsenicPast ProducerVEIN, SHEAR ZONE
Amazon MineLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, ZincPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite
Amazon MineGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
BaltimoreGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Baltimore MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper, ArsenicPast Producer1885
Boulder District-MontanaLead, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Copper, Zinc, Tungsten, Antimony, Barium-Barite, Molybdenum, ArsenicPast Producer1870
Boulder Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Cleveland MineLead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite
ComstockLead, ZincProspect
Fairview MineLead, Silver, GoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boulder in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 5 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2000WildfireBoulder2 hurtHigh Ore/Boulder Hill fire, 12604 acres burned, cause unknown.
July 2022HailBoulder-Trainer spotter reported hail falling between dime and quarter size.
August 2019HailBoulder-A trained spotter reports hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter 5 miles NNW of Whitehall at 5:26 PM MST.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBoulder-Mesonet station in Boulder reported 58-mph peak gust from thunderstorm.
June 2002HailBoulder-A severe thunderstorm produced 1.00 inch hail near Boulder.
August 2002HailBoulder-A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail in Boulder.
August 2001HailBoulder-Dime sized hail reported by spotter in the town of Boulder.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Rieder2.4 miles29
Kyle3.5 miles29
Fuller4.7 miles30
Comet5.7 miles30
Amazon5.8 miles29
Portal7.0 miles29
Wickes7.9 miles29
Big Foot (historical)7.9 miles28

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 BoulderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967035The 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 780250. 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.