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Elliston, Montana

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Avon-Elliston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59728. It stands on Elliston Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elliston quadrangle. 227 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,059 feet above sea level.

Elliston within Powell County

On record in Elliston

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

3 figures

Elliston grew from 225 to 227 between 2000 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
2000225
2010219-6 (-3%)
2020227+8 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Elliston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 498 acres in total. 16 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
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2013Naturalunder an acreHelena - Lewis and Clark National ForestELLISTON CREEK
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeMIKE RENIG
25 September 2017Other causesunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyBULLS EYE
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeMULLEN
13 September 1996Natural3.5 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeRENIG GULCH
11 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeSAWMILL GULCH
10 September 2017Natural434 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeSNOWSHOE
5 August 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powell 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 Elliston: 14 past producers, 9 occurrences, 5 producers, 3 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Gold, Limestone, General, Silver, Lead. 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
Carbonate KingGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Carbonate King MineSilver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Malachite, Sphalerite
Charter OakZinc, Silver, Lead, GoldPast Producer
ClarkLead, Silver, ZincProspect
Clark MineCopper, Zinc, Lead, AntimonyOccurrenceGalena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Elliston AreaPhosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Uranium, REE, Nickel, Chromium, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Elliston QuarryLimestone, Ultra PureProducerLimestone
Elliston QuarryCalciumProducer
Flora MineSilver, Lead, Gold, ZincProducerGalena, Gold, Sphalerite
Perlite 1,2,3,And 4.PerliteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Powell County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elliston in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2013HailElliston$6,000A person from the public reported hail to the estimated size of ping pongs that caused damage to the roof to their house and extensive damage to their camper. The hail lasted for approximately 10 minutes.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindElliston-The media reported A Montana woman was killed when a tree struck her during a weekend thunderstorm. She was reportedly running back to camp when a tree broke, striking her on the head. She died on the way to the hospital.
June 2013HailElliston-The hail began at 11:45 pm MDT and lasted for 10 minutes. The estimated quarter-size hail fell in the last two minutes of the event.
July 1995HailElliston-Report of one inch hail by a motorist on highway 12.
July 2022HailElliston-no account filed
May 2003HailElliston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Powell 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
Blossburg7.6 miles23
Avon9.4 miles24
Blackfoot City (historical)10.2 miles24
McDonald10.2 miles24
McGillvary11.0 miles24
Quigley11.6 miles24
Bradley (historical)12.7 miles23
Emery (historical)15.0 miles22

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 EllistonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966661The 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 783161. 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.