Eureka, Montana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Eureka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59917. It stands on Sinclair Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eureka North quadrangle. 1,380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,582 feet above sea level.
On record in Eureka
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
Eureka Community Halllisted 1985
Farmers and Merchants State Banklisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresEureka grew from 1,037 to 1,380 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 | 1,037 | |
| 2020 | 1,380 | +343 (+33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Eureka North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Yaak River quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Eureka North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
264 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Eureka between 1992 and 2020, burning about 452 acres in total. 51 started naturally. 6 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 100 |
| Natural | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 29 |
| Fireworks | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | not named |
| 4 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kootenai National Forest | FLAMING OWL |
| 27 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | CIRCLE J |
| 26 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | PINKHAM RANCH |
| 22 September 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | not named |
| 2 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | BARN |
| 19 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | HAY |
| 17 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | ROCK LAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Eureka: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Barium-Barite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonnett-Hoerner | Barium-Barite | Prospect | ||
| Tobacco River Placer | Gold | Prospect |
Storms near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 1 flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka | $20,000 | Significant power line and power pole damage was reported by the power company, due to multiple, downed trees. A photo on social media showed a large pine tree on top of a car. Power was out in the area for almost 24 hours. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Eureka | $4,000 | Hail caused significant damage to two vehicles and broke small tree limbs off nearby trees 2 miles southeast of Eureka. |
| November 2006 | Flood | Eureka | - | Lincoln County Sheriff reported bridge washouts, small stream flooding county wide with residents sandbagging property to protect homes. Flooding was reported near Libby from Libby Creek over topping its bands and flood waters lapping onto a home. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midvale | 0.6 miles | 10 | |
| Mills Springs (historical) | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Tobacco (historical) | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Tobacco | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Rexford | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Riverside (historical) | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Roosville | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| Gateway (historical) | 10.4 miles | 11 |
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 Eureka | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q965170 | 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 783241. 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.





