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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.

Fort Smith within Big Horn County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Fort 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.

YearPeople Change
2010161
2020170+9 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

58 since 1993

Regional 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
Natural15
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Fireworks6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
7 September 1997Naturalunder an acreBighorn Canyon National Recreation AreaVIRGIN
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrow AgencyCOOLER
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCrow AgencyBOZEMAN TRAIL
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.7 acresCrow AgencyWAR MAN
30 September 2012Other causesunder an acreCrow AgencyFT SMITH
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism7.5 acresCrow AgencyFT. SMITH DUMP
14 September 1996Natural80 acresCrow AgencyWARMAN
9 August 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresCrow Agency37

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clay and Shale OccurrencesClayOccurrence
Lime DepositCalciumPast Producer
Limestone OccurrenceLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Yellowtail Dam PumicitePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Unnamed QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn 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
Saint Xavier15.3 miles13
Rowley29.8 miles10
Toluca30.2 miles10
Benteen30.3 miles13
Lodge Grass30.4 miles13
Spear30.6 miles12
Garryowen31.1 miles7
Forty Mile Colony31.2 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 SmithAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960959The 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.