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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.

Clancy within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Clancy 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,661
20201,851+190 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

231 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Recreation and ceremony35
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral Land OfficeCAIRN LN
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeNORTH MAIN
6 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSHINGLE BUTTE
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
4 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestWARMSPRING/P16280
30 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestMCCLELLAN CREEK
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte Field OfficeROCKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 72 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Abc #1Thorium, UraniumOccurrenceTourmaline
Alhambra Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
BadgerGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Brown Silica DepositSilicaPast ProducerUnknown
Clancy-Lump Gulch DistrictLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Arsenic, Molybdenum, AntimonyProducer1865
Easy Money GroupGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Edge No. 1, Norway No. 6Gold, Copper, Lead, SilverUnknown
Free CoinageSilver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Free Coinage MineSilver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast ProducerGold
Harriet No. 3Silver, Lead, Copper, GoldProspect1956

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025HailClancy-Trained spotter reports hail slightly larger than quarter sized.
July 2022Heavy RainClancy-Trained spotter reported 1 inch of rainfall.
July 2022Heavy RainClancy-Trained spotter reported 0.43 inches of heavy rain measured in 20 minutes.
June 2019HailClancy-Second hand report of quarter size hail reported in Clancy by KRTV.
September 2019Heavy RainClancy-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 2019Heavy RainClancy-Public reported a rainfall total of 2.25 inches at 2 N Clancy from September 6th through the 9th.
August 2016HailClancy-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Clancy.
August 2014Heavy RainClancy-Heavy rain, measuring over 1.05 inches in 12 hours, was reported.
June 2011FloodClancy-Flooding of the Prickly Pear Creek caused significant damage to Tizer Botanic Garden and Arboretum.
July 2010HailClancy-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Clancy 7NE.
July 2010HailClancy-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Clancy 7NE.
June 2010HailClancy-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Montana City.
July 2009HailClancy-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Clancy 1N.
May 2007HailClancy-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Montana City.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindClancy-A severe thunderstorm produced a 60 mph wind gust at Clancy 6N.
May 2007HailClancy-no account filed
July 1998HailClancy-no account filed
June 1996HailClancy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Lewiston (historical)0.1 miles19
New Haven (historical)0.2 miles19
Alhambra1.0 miles19
Jefferson City5.7 miles29
Montana City5.8 miles21
Corbin7.1 miles29
Wickes10.1 miles29
Glenbeg (historical)10.8 miles30

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 ClancyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966526The 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.