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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.

Greycliff within Sweet Grass County

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 figures

Greycliff 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.

YearPeople Change
200056
2010112+56 (+100%)
202089-23 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

24 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use400 acresSouthern Land OfficeFLAT TIRE FIRE
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweet Grass CountyWEST SHANKS BASIN ROAD
23 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeVEGETION
10 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweet Grass CountyMM374 I-90
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweet Grass CountySHANKS BASIN WEST RD
21 August 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeRAILROAD R.O.W
20 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweet Grass County26 LOWER DEER CREEK RD
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSweet Grass CountyDODGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweet Grass County

Storms near this place

34 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023Flash FloodGreycliff-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 2023Flash FloodGreycliff-Water was reported over the roads along with an inch accumulation of pea size hail.
March 2014FloodGreycliff-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 2013Thunderstorm WindGreycliff-Winds were estimated at 75 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGreycliff-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGreycliff-Cottonwood tree branches of 2 to 3 inches in diameter were broken.
June 2011Funnel CloudGreycliff-A funnel cloud was spotted between Greycliff and Big Timber.
July 2006HailGreycliff-Pea size hail covering the ground and heavy rain.
July 2001HailGreycliff-Hail completely covered the ground
July 1998Heavy RainGreycliff-A spotter reported 2.60 inches of rainfall in one hour.
May 2020HailGreycliff-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGreycliff-no account filed
June 2019HailGreycliff-no account filed
June 2019HailGreycliff-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindGreycliff-no account filed
July 2018HailGreycliff-no account filed
July 2018HailGreycliff-no account filed
June 2018HailGreycliff-no account filed
July 2013HailGreycliff-no account filed
June 2011HailGreycliff-no account filed
June 2011HailGreycliff-no account filed
August 2009HailGreycliff-no account filed
August 2009HailGreycliff-no account filed
June 2008HailGreycliff-no account filed
June 2008HailGreycliff-no account filed
May 2007HailGreycliff-no account filed
May 2007HailGreycliff-no account filed
May 2007HailGreycliff-no account filed
June 2007HailGreycliff-no account filed
June 2007HailGreycliff-no account filed
May 2007HailGreycliff-no account filed
August 2004HailGreycliff-no account filed
August 1998WildfireGreycliff-no account filed
August 1998WildfireGreycliff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sweet Grass 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
Quebec7.1 miles16
Sourdough9.7 miles15
Big Timber10.3 miles16
Carney18.0 miles16
Wormser (historical)18.7 miles18
McLeod18.9 miles19
Knob Hill23.8 miles11
Melville25.1 miles11

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 GreycliffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954931The 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.