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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.

Craig within Lewis and Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Craig 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.

YearPeople Change
201043
202039-4 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

106 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1
Fireworks1
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
6 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreCentral Land OfficeWAGNER
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
17 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land OfficeMM 230
17 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.9 acresCentral Land Officenot named
14 September 2020Natural1.0 acresLewis & Clark CountyFALSE ALARM
10 September 2000Smokingunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dog Creek Titanium/Iron OccurrenceTitanium, Metal, IronOccurrenceIlmenite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003LightningCraig5 hurtno account filed
June 2020FloodCraig-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 2018FloodCraig-Spotter reported flooding at multiple fishing access sites along Dearborn River and downstream portion of Missouri River near Craig.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCraig-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 61 mph at Craig 5NE (the Gary Cooper Bridge DOT site).
May 2001HailCraig-Reported by motorist at Craig 5 SW.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCraig-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis and Clark 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
Wolf Creek7.3 miles11
Dennison (historical)7.7 miles18
Dearborn (historical)10.9 miles11
Sieben14.9 miles20
Old Weiss and French Place18.6 miles16
Nelson19.6 miles16
Mike Horse (historical)21.3 miles11
Milford Colony21.9 miles10

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 CraigAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5180655The 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.