Emigrant, Montana
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59027. It lies near Pole Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Emigrant quadrangle. 465 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,882 feet above sea level.
On record in Emigrant
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 2 records
John Hepburn Placelisted 2005- Frederick and Josephine Bottler Houselisted 2020
Population over time
2 figuresEmigrant fell from 488 to 465 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 | 488 | |
| 2020 | 465 | -23 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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.
- 1891 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Emigrant quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1988 USGS Emigrant quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Gardiner quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2000 USGS Emigrant quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Emigrant between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,011 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 1999 | Natural | 10 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | CHICO |
| 15 August 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | MESS KIT |
| 14 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | DRY CREEK |
| 14 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | SOLDIER |
| 22 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
| 18 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,000 acres | Butte Field Office | PARADISE VALLEY |
| 12 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Park County | not named |
| 5 October 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Park County | 30 RIVER DRIVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Emigrant: 8 unknowns, 7 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | Silver, Zinc, Gold, Lead | Unknown | ||
| Balm of Gilead Mama Gaylord Creek | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Chico Hot Springs | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Klu Klux Claim | Silver, Lead, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Lead Occurrence | Lead, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Merriman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Morning Star | Silver, Chromium | Unknown | ||
| Mountain Lion | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Bank | Zinc, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Burlesque | Silver, Zinc | Prospect |
Storms near this place
1 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emigrant in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Hail | Emigrant | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Glastonbury | 1.5 miles | 22 | |
| Pray | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| Merriman | 2.9 miles | 22 | |
| Chicory | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Chico Hot Springs | 3.1 miles | 21 | |
| Chico | 3.7 miles | 21 | |
| Glastonbury | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| South Glastonbury | 5.0 miles | 22 |
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 Emigrant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5676336 | 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 783189. 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.










