Huntley, Montana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Huntley Project census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59037. It stands on Twelve Mile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntley quadrangle. 442 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,022 feet above sea level.
On record in Huntley
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
Huntley Bridgelisted 2012
Population over time
3 figuresHuntley grew from 411 to 442 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 | 411 | |
| 2010 | 446 | +35 (+9%) |
| 2020 | 442 | -4 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 17 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.
- 1893 USGS Huntley quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Huntley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Billings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
48 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Huntley between 2006 and 2020, burning about 111 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/undetermined | 36 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 | Other causes | under an acre | Southern Land Office | HWY 312 E@ S 6TH RD |
| 8 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Southern Land Office | YEOMAN |
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | BROADVIEW DRIVE |
| 3 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yellowstone County | MCGIRL & POWMER ROADS |
| 26 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 64 acres | Yellowstone County | ISLAND |
| 14 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | SHEPHERD & BENGTSON RD |
| 13 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | NORTHERN AVE & HEATH ST |
| 22 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Billings Field Office | HUNTLEY DAM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntley in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Hail | Huntley | $2,000,000 | Numerous reports of tennis ball sized hail causing numerous damages to vehicles and homes in and around Huntley. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Huntley | $5,000 | Minor hail damage around town. Hail plugged storm sewers causing some local flooding. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | Mesonet station mtarc at 11.8 S Ballantine. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Huntley | - | Hail report. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | Estimated 60-70 mph. Very large tree branches down. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | A camper trailer was flipped and destroyed. One mobile home was destroyed and another was damaged. In addition, debris struck a power line which started a wildfire. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | A shed and dog kennel were damaged and playground equipment was flipped. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | A tree, approximately 1.5 feet in diameter, was uprooted. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph uprooted a few trees and demolished a utility building near Shepherd. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was estimated 1 mile south of Huntley. |
| March 2014 | Flood | Huntley | - | Some low land flooding occurred across portions of Pryor Creek between the town of Pryor and the Interstate 90 bridge. Low land flooding was also reported along portions of Pryor Creek between the town of Pryor and its confluence with the Yellowstone River at Huntley. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was estimated just south of Shepherd. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | Arrow Creek Hill DOT measured a wind gust of 60 mph. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Huntley | - | Water covering roadways |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | 10 power poles knocked down and semi-trailer knocked over |
| July 2001 | Hail | Huntley | - | Ground covered by hail and white. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Huntley | - | Spotter report of nickel size hail. |
| July 1998 | Heavy Rain | Huntley | - | 1.5 inches of rain fell in 30 minutes. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Huntley | - | Nickel sized hail covered the ground two inches deep near the Osbourne Project. The hail also did crop damage to wheat, corn and barley. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | At Laurel hanger damaged at airport and trees down around town. At Billings Airport plane was turned over. Lots of roof and tree damage around town. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Huntley | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Huntley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shepherd | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Cline | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| Knox | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Lockwood | 8.2 miles | 19 | |
| Hirsch | 8.2 miles | 19 | |
| Worden | 8.5 miles | 16 | |
| Ballantine | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Billings Heights | 9.5 miles | 19 |
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 Huntley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q968459 | 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 772643. 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.





