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.
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
Fraternity Halllisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresElkhorn 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | |
| 2020 | 12 | +2 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 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.
- 1886 USGS Fort Logan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Clancy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS White Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Elkhorn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 2001 USGS Elkhorn quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
30 since 1993Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | not named |
| 9 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | NURSERY |
| 9 August 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest | TIZER LAKE |
| 8 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | 90 CENT |
| 6 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | DEADMAN |
| 6 August 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | BROWNS GULCH |
| 28 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | DECKER |
| 24 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | RADARSBURG |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 65 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcturus Claim | Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Bulwer Mine | Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer | 1914 | |
| C&D and Louise | Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | 1875, 1880 | |
| Dunstone Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1900, 1901 | |
| Elkhorn | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Bismuth | Past Producer | 1875 | |
| Elkhorn (Swan) | Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold | Unknown | 1980 | |
| Elkhorn Mine | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, Bismuth | Past Producer | 1875 | |
| Elkhorn Peak Iron | Silver, Iron, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1887, 1890 | |
| Elkhorn Queen | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1880 | |
| Elkhorn Queen | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queen | 1.9 miles | 20 | |
| Blazing Place | 3.7 miles | 19 | |
| Kyle | 7.0 miles | 29 | |
| Rieder | 8.2 miles | 29 | |
| Jefferson City | 9.0 miles | 29 | |
| Amazon | 9.1 miles | 29 | |
| Corbin | 9.6 miles | 29 | |
| Boulder | 9.6 miles | 28 |
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 Elkhorn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q389288 | 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 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.








