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.
Population over time
2 figuresFort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,293 | |
| 2020 | 1,567 | +274 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Fort Belknap Agency quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Dodson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
335 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 111 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 74 |
| Debris and open burning | 49 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 35 |
| Natural | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | LEFTOVER FIRE |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fort Belknap Agency | NEW TOWN 2 |
| 5 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | EGGFIRE |
| 5 September 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Fort Belknap Agency | BIC |
| 4 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fort Belknap Agency | MONKEY BUMP |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | NEW TOWN |
| 4 September 2007 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | OL I.H.S |
| 4 September 1999 | Smoking | 2.7 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | CHERRY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newtown | 0.5 miles | 7 | |
| Harlem | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| North Harlem Colony | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Dogtown (historical) | 7.7 miles | 7 | |
| Savoy | 11.8 miles | 7 | |
| Zurich | 15.7 miles | 10 | |
| Coburg | 17.4 miles | 7 | |
| Ramburg (historical) | 17.8 miles | 10 |
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 Agency | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q957580 | 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 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.




