Greycliff, Montana
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the South of the Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59033. It lies near Dillon Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Greycliff quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,940 feet above sea level.
On record in Greycliff
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
3 figuresGreycliff grew from 56 to 89 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 56 | |
| 2010 | 112 | +56 (+100%) |
| 2020 | 89 | -23 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1891 USGS Big Timber quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Big Timber quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Greycliff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Big Timber quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Greycliff between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,295 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 400 acres | Southern Land Office | FLAT TIRE FIRE |
| 25 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sweet Grass County | WEST SHANKS BASIN ROAD |
| 23 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Southern Land Office | VEGETION |
| 10 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sweet Grass County | MM374 I-90 |
| 1 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sweet Grass County | SHANKS BASIN WEST RD |
| 21 August 2017 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Southern Land Office | RAILROAD R.O.W |
| 20 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sweet Grass County | 26 LOWER DEER CREEK RD |
| 18 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sweet Grass County | DODGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greycliff in 34 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 22 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 wildfire, 2 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Flash Flood | Greycliff | - | A thunderstorm 8 to 10 miles north/northwest of Reed Point produced heavy rainfall resulting in flash flooding that affected West White Beaver Creek. The flash flood created some log jams and took out some fencing. |
| June 2023 | Flash Flood | Greycliff | - | Water was reported over the roads along with an inch accumulation of pea size hail. |
| March 2014 | Flood | Greycliff | - | County officials reported that some streams and creeks were running high, and in some areas, water was running over roadways and flooding fields. Some roads became impassable. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greycliff | - | Winds were estimated at 75 mph. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greycliff | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greycliff | - | Cottonwood tree branches of 2 to 3 inches in diameter were broken. |
| June 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Greycliff | - | A funnel cloud was spotted between Greycliff and Big Timber. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Greycliff | - | Pea size hail covering the ground and heavy rain. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Greycliff | - | Hail completely covered the ground |
| July 1998 | Heavy Rain | Greycliff | - | A spotter reported 2.60 inches of rainfall in one hour. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Wildfire | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Wildfire | Greycliff | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quebec | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| Sourdough | 9.7 miles | 15 | |
| Big Timber | 10.3 miles | 16 | |
| Carney | 18.0 miles | 16 | |
| Wormser (historical) | 18.7 miles | 18 | |
| McLeod | 18.9 miles | 19 | |
| Knob Hill | 23.8 miles | 11 | |
| Melville | 25.1 miles | 11 |
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 Greycliff | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954931 | 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 771991. 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.
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.






