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Fort Belknap Agency, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Belknap census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59526. The Survey maps it on the Fort Belknap Agency quadrangle. 1,567 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,375 feet above sea level.

Fort Belknap Agency within Blaine County

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Belknap Agency grew from 1,293 to 1,567 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
20101,293
20201,567+274 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

335 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Fort Belknap Agency between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,933 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 4 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
Fireworks111
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Debris and open burning49
Misuse of fire by a minor35
Natural18
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking13
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes2
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresFort Belknap AgencyLEFTOVER FIRE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Belknap AgencyNEW TOWN 2
5 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresFort Belknap AgencyEGGFIRE
5 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFort Belknap AgencyBIC
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Belknap AgencyMONKEY BUMP
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFort Belknap AgencyNEW TOWN
4 September 2007Fireworks1.0 acresFort Belknap AgencyOL I.H.S
4 September 1999Smoking2.7 acresFort Belknap AgencyCHERRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fort Belknap Agency: 5 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Blaine 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
Newtown0.5 miles7
Harlem3.6 miles11
North Harlem Colony7.1 miles11
Dogtown (historical)7.7 miles7
Savoy11.8 miles7
Zurich15.7 miles10
Coburg17.4 miles7
Ramburg (historical)17.8 miles10

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 Fort Belknap AgencyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957580The 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 771503. 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.