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.
Population over time
2 figuresEdgar 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 114 | |
| 2020 | 110 | -4 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Edgar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Bridger quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
19 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | GRANITE |
| 2 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbon County | 10087 US HWY 212 1 |
| 3 August 2008 | Natural | 300 acres | Billings Field Office | ROCK QUARRY |
| 2 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 3825 TRAILMASTER DR |
| 17 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 18-9321 |
| 16 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Southern Land Office | CFS18-9277 |
| 30 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 9800 HWY 212 |
| 23 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 110 acres | Southern Land Office | COW CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Edgar | - | 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 2014 | Flood | Edgar | - | 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 2014 | Flood | Edgar | - | Some roads were closed due to high water. In addition, ice jam flooding occurred along the Clarks Fork between Bridger and Edgar. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were broken. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Edgar | - | Part of the Joliet to Fromberg road was washed out due to very heavy rain. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Edgar | - | 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.
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 Edgar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5337075 | 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 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.




