BlockBefore

Boyd, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Joliet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59013. It stands on Red Lodge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boyd quadrangle. 19 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,037 feet above sea level.

Boyd within Carbon County

Population over time

2 figures

Boyd fell from 35 to 19 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
201035
202019-16 (-46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Boyd between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,666 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle 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
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresCarbon CountySPLICE
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCarbon County22 VICTORY RD
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon County19-8637
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon County1016 SHANE RIDGE RD.
1 August 1996Natural445 acresSouthern Land OfficeSHANE RIDGE
24 July 2018Natural71 acresSouthern Land OfficeSTORMITT BUTTE
13 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon County1819 HIGHWAY 421
11 July 2006Natural1,000 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestSHANE RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyd in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 11 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindBoyd$1,000Two trees were downed around Boyd during a thunderstorm.
July 2018HailBoyd-The hail stripped trees of leaves and small limbs.
July 1999HailBoyd-Spotter report of quarter size hail. Several cars were damaged by hail.
May 2018HailBoyd-no account filed
August 2013HailBoyd-no account filed
July 2011HailBoyd-no account filed
June 2004HailBoyd-no account filed
June 2004HailBoyd-no account filed
June 2004HailBoyd-no account filed
June 2004HailBoyd-no account filed
July 2001HailBoyd-no account filed
July 2001HailBoyd-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Joliet5.4 miles10
Selmes5.7 miles12
Coalville (historical)8.6 miles10
Roberts8.6 miles10
Montaqua9.5 miles10
Fromberg9.6 miles10
Cherry Springs (historical)11.3 miles10
Edgar11.4 miles10

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 BoydAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4952292The 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 802051. 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.

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.