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Edgar, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Joliet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59026. It stands on Five Mile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edgar quadrangle. 110 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,474 feet above sea level.

Edgar within Carbon County

Population over time

2 figures

Edgar fell from 114 to 110 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
2010114
2020110-4 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Edgar between 1999 and 2020, burning about 2,765 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeGRANITE
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon County10087 US HWY 212 1
3 August 2008Natural300 acresBillings Field OfficeROCK QUARRY
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land Office3825 TRAILMASTER DR
17 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouthern Land Office18-9321
16 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeCFS18-9277
30 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land Office9800 HWY 212
23 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined110 acresSouthern Land OfficeCOW CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgar in 12 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. 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
May 2018Flash FloodEdgar-Very heavy thunderstorms produced 2 to 4 inches of rain in a very short time across the area. Flash flooding was reported at several locations. The Department of Transportation reported 10 of water flowing over Highway 310 where a culvert was overwhelmed. Water 10 deep also was reported flowing down a street in Joliet. Several culverts across the area were overwhelmed leading to some roads being washed away.
May 2014FloodEdgar-The Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone crested during the early evening on the 27th when the river was out of its banks. The river took out a tree and power pole and line which landed on the historical USGS measurement site for the river gauge at Edgar. The historical measurement site was smashed, but the electronic gauge was unharmed.
March 2014FloodEdgar-Some roads were closed due to high water. In addition, ice jam flooding occurred along the Clarks Fork between Bridger and Edgar.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEdgar-Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were broken.
July 2013Flash FloodEdgar-Part of the Joliet to Fromberg road was washed out due to very heavy rain.
May 2021HailEdgar-no account filed
May 2021HailEdgar-no account filed
June 2019HailEdgar-no account filed
June 2018HailEdgar-no account filed
June 2015HailEdgar-no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindEdgar-no account filed
June 2008HailEdgar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Montaqua4.0 miles10
Rockvale4.0 miles9
Fromberg5.8 miles10
Coalville (historical)5.8 miles10
Silesia6.4 miles9
Joliet6.4 miles10
Boyd11.4 miles11
Bridger12.1 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 EdgarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5337075The 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 771137. 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.

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.