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Garrison, Montana

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Avon-Elliston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59731. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garrison quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,373 feet above sea level.

Garrison within Powell County

Population over time

3 figures

Garrison grew from 112 to 115 between 2000 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
2000112
201096-16 (-14%)
2020115+19 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Garrison between 1992 and 2016, burning about 669 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined12
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficePHOSPHATE
22 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeGOLD CREEK #2
7 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeWILLOW CREEK #2
7 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.5 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeWILLOW CREEK
4 August 2004Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
27 August 1996Natural20 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeGARRISON JUNCTION
19 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
19 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeGARRISON JUNCTION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Garrison: 9 occurrences, 5 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Pumice, Brick Clay, Aggregate, Light Weight, Aluminum. 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
Al Deposit Near GarrisonBrick ClayOccurrenceCalcite, Feldspar, Illite, Kaolin, Quartz
Clay Deposit Se of GarrisonBrick Clay, Bloating MaterialOccurrenceCalcite, Chlorite, Feldspar, Illite, Kaolin, Montmorillonite, Quartz
South Luke MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
UnnamedUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed KaolinClayUnknown
Clay Deposit East of GarrisonBrick Clay, Aggregate, Light WeightOccurrenceCalcite, Dolomite, Feldspar, Illite, Kaolin, Pyrophyllite, Quartz
Clay Deposit West of GarrisonBrick Clay, Aggregate, Light WeightOccurrenceCalcite, Dolomite, Illite, Montmorillonite
State Prison Brick PlantAluminumOccurrence
UnnamedAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Powell County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garrison in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2017HailGarrison-Large hail of 1 in diameter was reported by citizen at the Garrison Mercantile in Garrison at 3:57 pm MDT.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGarrison-Public reported shingles knocked off the roof of a building due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2008HailGarrison-Public reported 0.75 inch hail just north of Garrison, MT.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindGarrison-no account filed
July 2001HailGarrison-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGarrison-no account filed
June 1997HailGarrison-no account filed
July 1996Heavy RainGarrison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Powell 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
Brock Creek6.0 miles22
Wall City6.9 miles23
Goldcreek7.6 miles23
Bradley (historical)8.2 miles23
Pioneer8.2 miles23
Sharkeyville (historical)8.3 miles22
Lingenpolter8.3 miles23
Dutton9.0 miles23

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 GarrisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955734The 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 771720. 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.

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.