Clancy, Montana
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59634. It stands on Clancy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clancy quadrangle. 1,851 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,242 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClancy grew from 1,661 to 1,851 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 | 1,661 | |
| 2020 | 1,851 | +190 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1886 USGS Fort Logan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Clancy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Clancy quadrangle1:24000
- 2001 USGS Clancy quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
231 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Clancy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,177 acres in total. 76 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 | 76 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 65 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Central Land Office | CAIRN LN |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | NORTH MAIN |
| 6 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | SHINGLE BUTTE |
| 4 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 4 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | WARMSPRING/P16280 |
| 30 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | MCCLELLAN CREEK |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Butte Field Office | ROCKY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 72 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 72 workings within 5 miles of Clancy: 31 past producers, 19 occurrences, 13 prospects, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Uranium, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abc #1 | Thorium, Uranium | Occurrence | Tourmaline | |
| Alhambra Hot Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Badger | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Brown Silica Deposit | Silica | Past Producer | Unknown | |
| Clancy-Lump Gulch District | Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Arsenic, Molybdenum, Antimony | Producer | 1865 | |
| Easy Money Group | Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Edge No. 1, Norway No. 6 | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Free Coinage | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Free Coinage Mine | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Gold | |
| Harriet No. 3 | Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold | Prospect | 1956 |
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clancy in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 hail, 5 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Clancy | - | Trained spotter reports hail slightly larger than quarter sized. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Clancy | - | Trained spotter reported 1 inch of rainfall. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Clancy | - | Trained spotter reported 0.43 inches of heavy rain measured in 20 minutes. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Clancy | - | Second hand report of quarter size hail reported in Clancy by KRTV. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Clancy | - | A rainfall total of 1.36 inches was reported by the public at 2 SE Montana City. Rainfall total began on the evening of Sunday, September 8th. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Clancy | - | Public reported a rainfall total of 2.25 inches at 2 N Clancy from September 6th through the 9th. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Clancy | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Clancy. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Clancy | - | Heavy rain, measuring over 1.05 inches in 12 hours, was reported. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Clancy | - | Flooding of the Prickly Pear Creek caused significant damage to Tizer Botanic Garden and Arboretum. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Clancy | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Clancy 7NE. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Clancy | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Clancy 7NE. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Clancy | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Montana City. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Clancy | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Clancy 1N. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Clancy | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Montana City. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clancy | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a 60 mph wind gust at Clancy 6N. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Clancy | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Clancy | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Clancy | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewiston (historical) | 0.1 miles | 19 | |
| New Haven (historical) | 0.2 miles | 19 | |
| Alhambra | 1.0 miles | 19 | |
| Jefferson City | 5.7 miles | 29 | |
| Montana City | 5.8 miles | 21 | |
| Corbin | 7.1 miles | 29 | |
| Wickes | 10.1 miles | 29 | |
| Glenbeg (historical) | 10.8 miles | 30 |
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 Clancy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q966526 | 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 800597. 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.








