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.
Population over time
2 figuresBoyd 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 35 | |
| 2020 | 19 | -16 (-46%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1932 USGS Red Lodge No 1 quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Boyd quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Red Lodge quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Carbon County | SPLICE |
| 14 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Carbon County | 22 VICTORY RD |
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbon County | 19-8637 |
| 4 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbon County | 1016 SHANE RIDGE RD. |
| 1 August 1996 | Natural | 445 acres | Southern Land Office | SHANE RIDGE |
| 24 July 2018 | Natural | 71 acres | Southern Land Office | STORMITT BUTTE |
| 13 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbon County | 1819 HIGHWAY 421 |
| 11 July 2006 | Natural | 1,000 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | SHANE RIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boyd | $1,000 | Two trees were downed around Boyd during a thunderstorm. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Boyd | - | The hail stripped trees of leaves and small limbs. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Boyd | - | Spotter report of quarter size hail. Several cars were damaged by hail. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Boyd | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Boyd | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Boyd | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Boyd | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Boyd | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Boyd | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Boyd | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Boyd | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Boyd | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joliet | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Selmes | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Coalville (historical) | 8.6 miles | 10 | |
| Roberts | 8.6 miles | 10 | |
| Montaqua | 9.5 miles | 10 | |
| Fromberg | 9.6 miles | 10 | |
| Cherry Springs (historical) | 11.3 miles | 10 | |
| Edgar | 11.4 miles | 10 |
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 Boyd | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4952292 | 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 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.





