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Dayton, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59914. It stands on Proctor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elmo quadrangle. 104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,910 feet above sea level.

Dayton within Lake County

On record in Dayton

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

3 figures

Dayton grew from 95 to 104 between 2000 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
200095
201084-11 (-12%)
2020104+20 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Dayton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 203 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 3 were 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
Natural32
Recreation and ceremony23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning11
Fireworks9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
4 September 2001Fireworks1.0 acresFlathead AgencyBIGARM
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning80 acresFlathead AgencyWALKING
2 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlathead AgencyMELITA
2 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
2 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
18 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlathead AgencyWILD HORSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Dayton: 6 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Lead, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver. 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
Chief Cliff MineLead, SilverOccurrenceVein
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mosher ProspectCopper, SilverOccurrence1910
Mosher ProspectCopperPast Producer
Silverstone MineCopper, Lead, Zinc, SilverOccurrenceVein
Unnamed Building StoneStone, DimensionOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectsLead, Copper, SilverProspect
Chief Cliff MineLead, SilverOccurrence
Silverstone MineSilver, LeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dayton in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDayton$1,000Estimated winds to 60 mph caused waves to 4 feet on Flathead Lake and power outages in the Dayton area.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDayton-A NWS employee reported trees bending with one large tree blown down. The waves on Flathead lake were the highest she had ever seen.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Proctor2.3 miles9
Elmo4.5 miles9
Snowberg Court4.7 miles9
Big Arm4.8 miles9
Lindisfarne4.8 miles7
Rollins5.1 miles8
Sipes7.3 miles10
Meltons7.7 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 DaytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965572The 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 770496. 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.