Great Falls, Montana

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• Cascade County

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 12 of 28 shown

• Great Falls PortageNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Charles M. Russell House and StudioNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Arvon Blocklisted 1991
• Cascade County Courthouselisted 1980
• Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Passenger Depotlisted 1988
• Timothy Edwards Collins Mansionlisted 1980
• First United Methodist Church Parsonagelisted 2003
• Lee M. Ford Houselisted 1990
• Great Falls Central Business Historic Districtlisted 2004
• Great Falls Central High Schoollisted 1976
• Margaret Blocklisted 1984
• Masonic Templelisted 2000

Every listing in Cascade County

Great Falls grew from 56,690 to 60,442 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.

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.

• 1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1949 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Northwest Great Falls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1976 USGS Great Falls North quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Great Falls between 2017 and 2019, burning about 67 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Johnstown (historical)
• Emerson Junction
• Black Eagle
• Boston Heights (historical)
• Flood (historical)
• Little Chicago (historical)

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Great Falls: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Cascade County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Great Falls in 127 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 53 thunderstorm wind, 48 hail, 8 heavy rain, 8 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Cascade County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 802113. 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.