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Fort Peck, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the South Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59248. It stands on Duck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Peck quadrangle. 239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,201 feet above sea level.

Fort Peck within Valley County

On record in Fort Peck

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Peck grew from 233 to 239 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
2010233
2020239+6 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fort Peck between 1994 and 2017, burning about 383 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Firearms and explosives use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
1 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCharles M. Russell National Wildlife RefugeNATOUT1
31 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCharles M. Russell National Wildlife RefugePOWERHOUSE
11 August 2000Natural145 acresCharles M. Russell National Wildlife RefugeSCOUT
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCharles M. Russell National Wildlife RefugeFLAT LAKE
24 July 2013Natural8.0 acresCharles M. Russell National Wildlife RefugeHORSE PASTURE
11 July 2017Naturalunder an acreCharles M. Russell National Wildlife RefugeTROPHY DOE
30 June 2003Naturalunder an acreMiles City Field OfficeARTZ COULE
19 June 1997Natural3.0 acresCharles M. Russell National Wildlife RefugeBEACH#1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Peck in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
August 1995HailFort Peck$6,000A sheriff's department vehicle had it's windshield broken when a hailstone ripped through it. Two other department vehicles were damaged by hail. Damage was estimated at $6000.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFort Peck$5,000There was lots of wind damage across Valley County. Several homes and trailers were damaged. A flash flood near Hinsdale washed out Highway 2 and the railroad.
August 1993HailFort Peck$5,000no account filed
August 1995Tornado (F0)Fort Peck-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
New Deal (historical)1.4 miles11
Park Grove1.5 miles11
Free Deal (historical)2.1 miles11
Square Deal (historical)2.2 miles11
Park Dale (historical)2.4 miles11
Idlewile (historical)2.6 miles11
Delano Heights (historical)2.6 miles11
Lakeview (historical)2.6 miles11

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 PeckAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963918The 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 2351723. 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.

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.