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.
Population over time
3 figuresHeart 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 698 | |
| 2010 | 582 | -116 (-17%) |
| 2020 | 621 | +39 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1914 USGS Heart Butte quadrangle1:125000
- 1918 USGS Heart Butte quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Cut Bank quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Heart Butte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Valier quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
57 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | HEART BUTTE CEMETARY |
| 9 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | SKUNK VILLAGE |
| 25 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | BAPTIST |
| 22 September 2003 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Blackfeet Agency | TWIN LK N |
| 2 September 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | HEART BUTTE |
| 19 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | HEART FIRE |
| 15 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | HBBLACKTOP |
| 10 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Blackfeet Agency | RACINE |
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart Butte Deposit | Iron, Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| Iron-Titanium Occurrence | Titanium, Iron, REE | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Heart Butte | - | Heavy rain, measuring over 1.00 inches in 1 hour, was reported. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Heart Butte | - | Heavy rain of about 1.31 inches in 24 hours was reported at the Heart Butte RAWS. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Heart Butte | - | Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported covering the ground 1 mile NW of Heart Butte, MT. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Heart Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heart Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Heart Butte | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robere (historical) | 15.4 miles | 12 | |
| Kingsbury Colony | 18.6 miles | 12 | |
| Pierce Crossing | 18.9 miles | 12 | |
| Dupuyer | 18.9 miles | 12 | |
| Birch Creek Colony | 19.6 miles | 12 | |
| Hagans Crossing | 20.9 miles | 11 | |
| Aubrey Crossing | 22.9 miles | 12 | |
| Pondera Colony | 23.6 miles | 12 |
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 Butte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q955795 | 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 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.






