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Elkhorn, Montana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59632. It lies near Slaughterhouse Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Elkhorn quadrangle. 12 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,443 feet above sea level.

Elkhorn within Jefferson County

On record in Elkhorn

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Elkhorn grew from 10 to 12 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
201010
202012+2 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Elkhorn between 1993 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 20 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
Natural20
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forestnot named
9 August 2006Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestNURSERY
9 August 2000Recreation and ceremony15 acresHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestTIZER LAKE
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest90 CENT
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestDEADMAN
6 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBROWNS GULCH
28 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeDECKER
24 August 1999Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestRADARSBURG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Elkhorn: 31 past producers, 16 prospects, 12 occurrences, 4 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper. 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
Arcturus ClaimCopper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, GoldOccurrence
Bulwer MineCopper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, GoldPast Producer1914
C&D and LouiseGold, Lead, Silver, CopperPast Producer1875, 1880
Dunstone MineLead, ZincPast Producer1900, 1901
ElkhornSilver, Gold, Lead, Copper, BismuthPast Producer1875
Elkhorn (Swan)Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, GoldUnknown1980
Elkhorn MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, BismuthPast Producer1875
Elkhorn Peak IronSilver, Iron, Gold, CopperPast Producer1887, 1890
Elkhorn QueenSilver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, GoldPast Producer1880
Elkhorn QueenLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Queen1.9 miles20
Blazing Place3.7 miles19
Kyle7.0 miles29
Rieder8.2 miles29
Jefferson City9.0 miles29
Amazon9.1 miles29
Corbin9.6 miles29
Boulder9.6 miles28

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 ElkhornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q389288The 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 783128. 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.