Craig, Montana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Wolf Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59648. It stands on Wegner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Craig quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,461 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCraig fell from 43 to 39 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 | 43 | |
| 2020 | 39 | -4 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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 Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Craig quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
106 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Craig between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,530 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 1 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 | 61 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 6 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | WAGNER |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 30 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 17 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Central Land Office | MM 230 |
| 17 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.9 acres | Central Land Office | not named |
| 14 September 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Lewis & Clark County | FALSE ALARM |
| 10 September 2000 | Smoking | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Craig: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Metal, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dog Creek Titanium/Iron Occurrence | Titanium, Metal, Iron | Occurrence | Ilmenite, Magnetite |
Storms near this place
6 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craig in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 5 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Lightning | Craig | 5 hurt | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Flood | Craig | - | At 3:15 AM MDT Tuesday the stage was 5.8 feet.|Flood stage is 6.5 feet.|Minor flooding is forecast.|Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage late morning to a crest of 6.6 feet. |It then falls below flood stage just after midnight.|Impact...At 6.5 feet, River coming out of banks within reach of USGS gage, flooding field to north of river and west of Highway 287.|Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of 6.4 feet on 06/16/1950.|At 12:15 PM MDT Tuesday the stage was 5.7 feet.|Flood stage is 6.5 feet.|Forecast...The Dearborn River has crested, and should continue to slowly fall through Wednesday. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Craig | - | Spotter reported flooding at multiple fishing access sites along Dearborn River and downstream portion of Missouri River near Craig. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Craig | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 61 mph at Craig 5NE (the Gary Cooper Bridge DOT site). |
| May 2001 | Hail | Craig | - | Reported by motorist at Craig 5 SW. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Craig | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolf Creek | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Dennison (historical) | 7.7 miles | 18 | |
| Dearborn (historical) | 10.9 miles | 11 | |
| Sieben | 14.9 miles | 20 | |
| Old Weiss and French Place | 18.6 miles | 16 | |
| Nelson | 19.6 miles | 16 | |
| Mike Horse (historical) | 21.3 miles | 11 | |
| Milford Colony | 21.9 miles | 10 |
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 Craig | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5180655 | 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 800644. 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.




