Conner, Montana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Sula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59827. It stands on Whitsell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Robbins Gulch quadrangle. 182 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,030 feet above sea level.
On record in Conner
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 1 record
- Alta Ranger Stationlisted 1974
Population over time
2 figuresConner fell from 216 to 182 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 | 216 | |
| 2020 | 182 | -34 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1956 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Robbins Gulch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Robbins Gulch quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
124 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Conner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,599 acres in total. 81 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 | 81 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | GATE 11 |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | CRITTER CROSSING |
| 3 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | not named |
| 29 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | PIERCE CR |
| 20 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | TRAPPER |
| 17 September 1994 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | not named |
| 16 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | JUNCTION |
| 12 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | GILBERT CR. |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Conner: 3 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Niobium (Columbium), REE. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mace Prospect | Tantalum, Mica | Prospect | ||
| Rye Creek | Thorium, Titanium, Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Rye Creek Prospect | Niobium (Columbium), REE | Occurrence | Columbite | |
| Washington | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conner in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Hail | Conner | - | A person from Conner mentioned that quarter size hail ruined their garden. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Conner | - | Trained spotter estimated 59 mph wind gust. A person from the public on Facebook estimated wind gusts were over 65 mph in Darby. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Conner | - | A spotter 7 miles southwest of Conner estimated 1 inch hail and heavy rain. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Conner | - | Hail up to one inch in diameter reported by a storm spotter. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Conner | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Conner | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Conner | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Conner | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Conner | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaks and Pines Park | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Holtet Court | 6.8 miles | 17 | |
| Darby | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Medicine Hot Springs | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| University Heights | 8.6 miles | 17 | |
| Gorus | 9.4 miles | 17 | |
| Sula | 10.0 miles | 11 | |
| Como | 11.3 miles | 17 |
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 Conner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5783379 | 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 781580. 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.



