Fort Smith, Montana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Crow Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59035. It lies near Bighorn Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Yellowtail Dam quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,287 feet above sea level.
On record in Fort Smith
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 3 records
Bighorn Ditch Headgatelisted 1976
Fort C. F. Smith Historic Districtlisted 1975- Camp Fourlisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresFort Smith grew from 161 to 170 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 | 161 | |
| 2020 | 170 | +9 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS St. Xavier quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS St. Xavier quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Yellowtail Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Lodge Grass quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
58 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Fort Smith between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,733 acres in total. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area | VIRGIN |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Crow Agency | COOLER |
| 30 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Crow Agency | BOZEMAN TRAIL |
| 30 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.7 acres | Crow Agency | WAR MAN |
| 30 September 2012 | Other causes | under an acre | Crow Agency | FT SMITH |
| 22 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.5 acres | Crow Agency | FT. SMITH DUMP |
| 14 September 1996 | Natural | 80 acres | Crow Agency | WARMAN |
| 9 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Crow Agency | 37 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Fort Smith: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay and Shale Occurrences | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Lime Deposit | Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Occurrence | Limestone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Yellowtail Dam Pumicite | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Xavier | 15.3 miles | 13 | |
| Rowley | 29.8 miles | 10 | |
| Toluca | 30.2 miles | 10 | |
| Benteen | 30.3 miles | 13 | |
| Lodge Grass | 30.4 miles | 13 | |
| Spear | 30.6 miles | 12 | |
| Garryowen | 31.1 miles | 7 | |
| Forty Mile Colony | 31.2 miles | 13 |
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 Smith | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q960959 | 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 794944. 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.






