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Busby, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Northern Cheyenne Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59016. It stands on Busby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Busby quadrangle. 719 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,422 feet above sea level.

Busby within Big Horn County

On record in Busby

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Busby fell from 745 to 719 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
2010745
2020719-26 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Busby between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,484 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 25 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural22
Fireworks18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorthern Cheyenne AgencyEAGLES
9 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNorthern Cheyenne AgencyBALE
8 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorthern Cheyenne AgencyMORNING
8 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNorthern Cheyenne AgencyMATCH
7 September 2015Natural1.5 acresNorthern Cheyenne AgencyPARKER THREE
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern Cheyenne AgencyCAYWOOD
4 September 2002Natural1.0 acresNorthern Cheyenne AgencyTHUNDERBOL
25 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNorthern Cheyenne AgencyBUSBY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Busby: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Busby in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2007: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBusby$3,000Wind damage with 60 mph winds. Trees downed.
June 2007Heavy RainBusby-Rain reports from the event were 4.43 inches in 24 hours.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindBusby-Spotter report of 60 mph winds which downed 1 inch tree branches.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBusby-no account filed
June 2005HailBusby-no account filed
July 2005HailBusby-no account filed
June 2002HailBusby-no account filed
June 2002HailBusby-no account filed
July 2001HailBusby-no account filed
July 2001HailBusby-no account filed
July 2001HailBusby-no account filed
July 1996HailBusby-no account filed
August 1995HailBusby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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
Muddy11.9 miles7
Kirby14.2 miles7
Sarpy (historical)17.8 miles6
Benteen24.0 miles13
Garryowen24.6 miles7
McRae (historical)25.1 miles6
Lodge Grass26.5 miles13
Crow Agency27.2 miles7

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 BusbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959268The 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 769427. 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.