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East Helena, Montana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Helena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59635. The Survey maps it on the East Helena quadrangle. 1,944 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,888 feet above sea level.

East Helena within Lewis and Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

East Helena fell from 1,984 to 1,944 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
20101,984
20201,944-40 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of East Helena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 802 acres in total. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Natural21
Debris and open burning17
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony8
Fireworks7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeEAST VALLEY
6 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCentral Land OfficeEAST VALLEY
19 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeCLAYSOIL
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresCentral Land Officenot named
17 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeHWY 282 MA
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeDAHL DR MA
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeI-15 MM186

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of East Helena: 11 occurrences, 9 past producers, 5 producers, 4 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension, Pumice. 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
(Facility) East Helena Lead SmelterLead, Smelter, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
Asarco Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Aurora MineGold, Copper, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Bompart HomesteadMicaOccurrence
C. E. S. Ballard, EtalUranium, ThoriumOccurrenceVein
Clark LeadLeadProspect
East Helena Plant AsarcoSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Easy Money GroupGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Helena Slag DumpIronOccurrence
Maybesto & Try ClaimsGold, Lead, Mercury, SilverUnknown

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Helena in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2022Heavy RainEast Helena-Trained spotter reported 1.98 inches of rainfall per hour. Winds gusting 32 mph.
August 2019HailEast Helena-A trained spotter reported mixed nickle and quarter sized hail (.88 to 1 inch in diameter).
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Helena-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 58 mph at East Helena 4NNW.
June 2010HailEast Helena-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at East Helena 5E.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEast Helena-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 65 mph at East Helena. The wind damaged numreous trees. A possible funnel cloud was also reported by the public.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEast Helena-no account filed
July 2000HailEast Helena-no account filed
August 2000HailEast Helena-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
Four Range0.8 miles21
Helena6.4 miles30
Evergreen Court6.7 miles28
Lakeside7.5 miles19
Kenwood (historical)8.3 miles30
Broadwater9.1 miles30
Seven Mile (historical)9.4 miles28
Dotsonville (historical)9.6 miles30

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 East HelenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967025The 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 800739. 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.