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Heart Butte, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59448. It stands on North Fork Whitetail Creek. The Survey maps it on the Heart Butte quadrangle. 621 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,472 feet above sea level.

Heart Butte within Pondera County

Population over time

3 figures

Heart Butte fell from 698 to 621 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
2000698
2010582-116 (-17%)
2020621+39 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Heart Butte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 371 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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 ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Fireworks6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2

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
9 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyHEART BUTTE CEMETARY
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBlackfeet AgencySKUNK VILLAGE
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyBAPTIST
22 September 2003Smoking1.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyTWIN LK N
2 September 2015Fireworksunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyHEART BUTTE
19 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyHEART FIRE
15 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyHBBLACKTOP
10 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyRACINE

Every fire recorded in Pondera County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Heart Butte: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron, Iron, REE. 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
Heart Butte DepositIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Iron-Titanium OccurrenceTitanium, Iron, REEOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pondera County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heart Butte in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2014: 3 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2014Heavy RainHeart Butte-Heavy rain, measuring over 1.00 inches in 1 hour, was reported.
June 2014Heavy RainHeart Butte-Heavy rain of about 1.31 inches in 24 hours was reported at the Heart Butte RAWS.
August 2013HailHeart Butte-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported covering the ground 1 mile NW of Heart Butte, MT.
June 2006HailHeart Butte-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHeart Butte-no account filed
August 1999HailHeart Butte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pondera 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
Robere (historical)15.4 miles12
Kingsbury Colony18.6 miles12
Pierce Crossing18.9 miles12
Dupuyer18.9 miles12
Birch Creek Colony19.6 miles12
Hagans Crossing20.9 miles11
Aubrey Crossing22.9 miles12
Pondera Colony23.6 miles12

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 Heart ButteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955795The 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 772294. 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.