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Hamilton, Montana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59840. It stands on Canyon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton South quadrangle. 4,659 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,570 feet above sea level.

Hamilton within Ravalli County

On record in Hamilton

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 31 shown

Every listing in Ravalli County

Population over time

2 figures

Hamilton grew from 4,348 to 4,659 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
20104,348
20204,659+311 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Hamilton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,876 acres in total. 19 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
Recreation and ceremony21
Natural19
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
6 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresBitterroot National ForestSAWTOOTH LANE MUTUAL AID
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRavaIIi County500 STONEGATE DR UNIT 4
29 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBitterroot National ForestCANYON HEAD
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBitterroot National Forestnot named
21 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreBitterroot National ForestGOLD CREEK
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBitterroot National ForestCANYON CK.
17 September 2000Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestDOWNING TOP
9 August 2003Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestDOWNING 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hamilton: 5 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Thorium, Zirconium, Iron. 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
Canyon CreekTitanium, Thorium, Zirconium, IronUnknown
Sawtooth CreekTitanium, Iron, ThoriumUnknown
Sleeping Child QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Blodgett CreekTitanium, Iron, Thorium, ZirconiumUnknown
Mill CreekTitanium, Iron, Thorium, ZirconiumUnknown
Palmen Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ravalli County CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roaring Lion CreekTitanium, Iron, Thorium, ZirconiumUnknown
Woodside Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ravalli County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamilton in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 9 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 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
May 2018HailHamilton$20,000This storm produced enough hail to cover the ground several inches in the Hamilton area. There were multiple reports of one inch hail. A lady reported that she would have to replace her roof due to the hail damage. She remarked that she knew of several others who had to get their roofs repaired.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindHamilton$12,000Ravalli County dispatch received several reports of downed trees due to thunderstorm winds in the Bitterroot Valley from Florence to Hamilton.
November 2008Flash FloodHamilton$5,800Ravalli County Road Department reported wash-outs on West Side Rd. (SW of Hamilton), West Hills Way (NW of Hamilton), and Camas Creek Loop (SW of Hamilton).
May 1993HailHamilton$5,000Lightning struck a house and set it on fire.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindHamilton$3,000The Ravalli County emergency manager reported that multiple power lines were down around Hamilton.
July 2019HailHamilton-Quarter to ping-pong-sized hail was reported in Hamilton. Quarter-sized hail was also reported in Corvallis.
May 2018HailHamilton-Hailstones reported varied from marble up to ping pong size during the storm.
June 2012HailHamilton-A member of the public reported of 1.75 inch hail in Hamilton.
October 2011Heavy RainHamilton-Two spotters in Hamilton reported heavy rainfall, one received 0.76 and the other 0.85 inches in 12 hours.
April 2006Heavy RainHamilton-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHamilton-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHamilton-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHamilton-no account filed
June 2004HailHamilton-no account filed
June 2004HailHamilton-no account filed
July 2002HailHamilton-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHamilton-no account filed
July 2000HailHamilton-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHamilton-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHamilton-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHamilton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ravalli 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
Leisure Village0.4 miles16
Riverside1.9 miles17
Grantsdale3.1 miles16
Curdys Cove3.2 miles16
Woodside4.6 miles17
Woodside Crossing4.6 miles17
Dutch Hill (historical)5.1 miles17
Corvallis5.3 miles16

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 HamiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q602520The 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 784496. 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.