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Cooke City, Montana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Gardiner-Cooke City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59020. It stands on Republic Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cooke City quadrangle. 77 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,572 feet above sea level.

Cooke City within Park County

On record in Cooke City

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

Population over time

2 figures

Cooke City grew from 75 to 77 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
201075
202077+2 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cooke City between 1995 and 2017, burning about 216 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
23 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestMINERAL
15 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestOVIS LAKE
12 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestCHIMNEY ROCK
31 August 2002Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestMILLER CREEK
30 August 2009Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkMERIDIAN
26 August 2003Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkREPUBLIC
18 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBROADWATER
16 August 1996Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestHENDERSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Cooke City: 27 past producers, 21 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper. 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
Black WarriorSilver, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Bull Elk LodeLead, Gold, Silver, Zinc, CopperProducer1934
Bull Elk LodeLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldUnknown
Crown Butte and Melissa MineGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Fire Clay ClaimFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Glengarry MineSilver, Copper, GoldOccurrenceContact Metamorphic
Homestake MineGold, Copper, ManganesePast Producer1890
Josephine LodeLead, Gold, SilverProspect1882
Lulu Extension LodeCopper, Silver, GoldProspect1917
Mohawk WarriorGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cooke City in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 wildfire. 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 2001WildfireCooke City-Monument WildernessDate Started: August 24, 2001Cause of Ignition: LightningLocation: 10 miles northwest of Cooke City, MontanaSize: 1660 acresContained: September 3rd, 2001Cost: $417,000

Every storm recorded in Park 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
Silver Gate3.0 miles17
Independence21.4 miles23
Lazy Day (historical)24.6 miles23
Contact37.3 miles22
Jardine37.3 miles23
Montanapolis Springs (historical)39.2 miles22
Gardiner40.9 miles23
White City44.5 miles21

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 Cooke CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17400774The 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 781607. 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.