Drummond, Montana
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Drummond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59832. It lies near Edwards Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Drummond quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,963 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDrummond fell from 309 to 272 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 | 309 | |
| 2020 | 272 | -37 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1919 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1921 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Missoula East quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Drummond quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
30 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Drummond between 1994 and 2017, burning about 130 acres in total. 16 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 | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | RUSH LIMBAUGH |
| 21 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Southwestern Land Office | LYON GULCH |
| 13 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | STURGEON |
| 1 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | KING MOUNTAIN |
| 9 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 8 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 7 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 3 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | BERT CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 27 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Drummond: 10 occurrences, 10 unknowns, 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Brick Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flint Creek Valley | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| New Chicago | Diatomite | Unknown | ||
| Spring Gulch Mine | Limestone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Summit Mine | Lead, Silver, Gold | Producer | Galena, Gold, Iron | |
| Bert Creek | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Unknown | ||
| Clay Deposit In Rattle Gulch | Brick Clay | Occurrence | Feldspar, Hematite, Illite, Kaolin, Montmorillonite, Quartz | |
| Clay Deposit On Morris Creek | Brick Clay | Occurrence | Feldspar, Kaolin, Mica, Quartz | |
| Lower Willow Creek Placer | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Drummond in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Hail | Drummond | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Chicago | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Bradman | 4.6 miles | 19 | |
| Ozan | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Hall | 6.2 miles | 20 | |
| Haskell (historical) | 6.6 miles | 20 | |
| Sherryl | 8.8 miles | 20 | |
| Bearmouth | 10.2 miles | 20 | |
| Springtown | 11.5 miles | 19 |
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 Drummond | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q959155 | 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 770752. 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.








