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.
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
Boulder Hot Springs Hotellisted 1979
Jefferson County Courthouselisted 1980
Montana Deaf and Dumb Asylumlisted 1985- Hall Bungalowlisted 2021
- Montana State Training School Historic Districtlisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresBoulder 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,183 | |
| 2020 | 1,201 | +18 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 28 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.
- 1889 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1899 USGS Boulder quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1899 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1903 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Boulder quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Boulder East quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Butte North quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Boulder East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
37 since 1994Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Butte Field Office | BOOMERANG |
| 22 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | POORE |
| 12 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | PORCUPINE |
| 7 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Butte Field Office | FREE ENTERPRISE MINE |
| 7 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | BOULDER POWERLINE |
| 6 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 6 August 1998 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | BOULDER HOT SPRINGS |
| 23 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | MCCARTY CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 49 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon District | Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic | Past Producer | VEIN, SHEAR ZONE | |
| Amazon Mine | Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite | |
| Amazon Mine | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Baltimore | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Baltimore Mine | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper, Arsenic | Past Producer | 1885 | |
| Boulder District-Montana | Lead, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Copper, Zinc, Tungsten, Antimony, Barium-Barite, Molybdenum, Arsenic | Past Producer | 1870 | |
| Boulder Hot Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Cleveland Mine | Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite | |
| Comstock | Lead, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Fairview Mine | Lead, Silver, Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Wildfire | Boulder | 2 hurt | High Ore/Boulder Hill fire, 12604 acres burned, cause unknown. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Boulder | - | Trainer spotter reported hail falling between dime and quarter size. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Boulder | - | A trained spotter reports hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter 5 miles NNW of Whitehall at 5:26 PM MST. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boulder | - | Mesonet station in Boulder reported 58-mph peak gust from thunderstorm. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Boulder | - | A severe thunderstorm produced 1.00 inch hail near Boulder. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Boulder | - | A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail in Boulder. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Boulder | - | Dime sized hail reported by spotter in the town of Boulder. |
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.
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 Boulder | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q967035 | 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 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.












