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Fort Shaw, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sun River Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59443. It stands on Adobe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Shaw quadrangle. 256 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,504 feet above sea level.

Fort Shaw within Cascade County

On record in Fort Shaw

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Shaw fell from 280 to 256 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
2010280
2020256-24 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Fort Shaw in 2017, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Other causes1

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
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeFORT SHAW
20 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSUN RIVER
19 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSUN RIVER
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSIMMS
20 July 2017Other causesunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSUN RIVER
28 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeFORT SHAW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Shaw: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Savoy QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cascade 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
Ashuelot3.6 miles15
Cascade Colony4.6 miles13
Sun River5.1 miles13
Simms6.3 miles13
Lowry10.6 miles11
Olson Place10.8 miles10
Fair Haven Colony11.9 miles16
Gordon12.2 miles13

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 ShawAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960995The 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 771518. 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.