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.
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
Administration Buildinglisted 1986
Employee's Hotel and Garagelisted 1986
Fort Peck Damlisted 1986
Fort Peck Original Houses Historic Districtlisted 1986
Fort Peck Theatrelisted 1983
Garage and Fire Stationlisted 1986
Hospitallisted 1986
Recreation Halllisted 1986- Schoollisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresFort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 233 | |
| 2020 | 239 | +6 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1914 USGS Nashua quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS Nashua quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Fort Peck quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Glasgow quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1994Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | NATOUT1 |
| 31 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | POWERHOUSE |
| 11 August 2000 | Natural | 145 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | SCOUT |
| 4 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | FLAT LAKE |
| 24 July 2013 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | HORSE PASTURE |
| 11 July 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | TROPHY DOE |
| 30 June 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Miles City Field Office | ARTZ COULE |
| 19 June 1997 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge | BEACH#1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1995 | Hail | Fort Peck | $6,000 | A 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Peck | $5,000 | There 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 1993 | Hail | Fort Peck | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Fort Peck | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Deal (historical) | 1.4 miles | 11 | |
| Park Grove | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Free Deal (historical) | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Square Deal (historical) | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Park Dale (historical) | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| Idlewile (historical) | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Delano Heights (historical) | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Lakeview (historical) | 2.6 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 Fort Peck | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963918 | 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 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.






