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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.

Drummond within Granite County

Population over time

2 figures

Drummond 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.

YearPeople Change
2010309
2020272-37 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

30 since 1994

Regional 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
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
30 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestRUSH LIMBAUGH
21 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeLYON GULCH
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeSTURGEON
1 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeKING MOUNTAIN
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
7 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
3 August 2009Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeBERT CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Flint Creek ValleyUraniumOccurrence
New ChicagoDiatomiteUnknown
Spring Gulch MineLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Summit MineLead, Silver, GoldProducerGalena, Gold, Iron
Bert CreekPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Clay Deposit In Rattle GulchBrick ClayOccurrenceFeldspar, Hematite, Illite, Kaolin, Montmorillonite, Quartz
Clay Deposit On Morris CreekBrick ClayOccurrenceFeldspar, Kaolin, Mica, Quartz
Lower Willow Creek PlacerGoldProspect
Unnamed Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Granite County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005HailDrummond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Granite 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
New Chicago2.8 miles19
Bradman4.6 miles19
Ozan5.6 miles19
Hall6.2 miles20
Haskell (historical)6.6 miles20
Sherryl8.8 miles20
Bearmouth10.2 miles20
Springtown11.5 miles19

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 DrummondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959155The 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.