Hungry Horse, Montana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59919. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hungry Horse quadrangle. 828 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,100 feet above sea level.
On record in Hungry Horse
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
2 figuresHungry Horse grew from 826 to 828 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 826 | |
| 2020 | 828 | +2 (+0%) |
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.
- 1943 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:125000
- 1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Hungry Horse quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Hungry Horse quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
130 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Hungry Horse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,696 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 11 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 | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Natural | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | WATER TANK |
| 8 September 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | TREE HOUSE |
| 4 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | CORAM |
| 30 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | NORTH DORIS |
| 3 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | HUNGRY HORSE |
| 25 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | 2861 |
| 20 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | not named |
| 18 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | WAJAX |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Hungry Horse: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. Smelter | Aluminum, Contained or Metal | Plant | 1955 | |
| Crushing Plant No. 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hungry Horse in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 2 hail, 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin City | 1.3 miles | 12 | |
| Coram | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Conkelley | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| South Fork (historical) | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Wagsmith Villa (historical) | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Columbia Falls | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Pine Park | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Big Sky Colonial Manor | 7.5 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 Hungry Horse | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q961027 | 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 785162. 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.






