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Camas, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59845. It lies near Rattlesnake Butte. The Survey maps it on the Hot Springs quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,828 feet above sea level.

Camas within Sanders County

On record in Camas

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Camas fell from 58 to 57 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
201058
202057-1 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Camas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 932 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 7 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
Natural23
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism7
Fireworks2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeMARKEL HILL
5 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlathead AgencyMARKLE 4
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyWELCOME SPRINGS
14 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlathead AgencyH HILL
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyGARDEN CRK
1 September 2019Natural60 acresFlathead AgencyWELCOME 1002
9 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyWELCOME 1050
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyHOT SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanders County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Camas: 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Quartz, Geothermal, Stone, 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
Unnamed FlagstoneStoneOccurrence
Camas Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Diamond Point Qtz Crystal DepositQuartzOccurrence
Diamond Point Qtz. CrystalQuartzOccurrence
Unnamed Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Sanders County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camas in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 2010Flash FloodCamas$15,000A slow moving thunderstorm dropped rainfall amounts of 1.59 inches up to an estimated 3.25 inches in a one to two hour period. Twenty five homes were flooded from runoff. One home owner had half their yard washed away with a shed also flooded.
May 2025HailCamas-A trained spotter reported pea to golf ball sized hail.
July 2010HailCamas-A trained spotter estimated penny to nickel sized hail.
August 2010HailCamas-The NWS storm survey team ran across a pile of hail 15 hours after the hail event occured which was still 0.75 inches in diameter. Hail was likely quite a bit larger when it initially fell.
May 2009Heavy RainCamas-Hot Springs RAWS reported 1.36 inches of rainfall in one hour at 3:29 PM MDT. Hot Springs Fire Department reported localized flooding of streets in Hot Springs.

Every storm recorded in Sanders 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
Hot Springs0.8 miles6
Lonepine6.0 miles8
Camas Prairie11.0 miles8
Blanchards Corner12.1 miles7
Plains16.1 miles8
Paradise17.5 miles9
Perma18.0 miles8
Knowles18.9 miles9

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 CamasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5741753The 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 769515. 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.