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Jefferson City, Montana

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59638. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson City quadrangle. 597 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,564 feet above sea level.

Jefferson City within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Jefferson City grew from 472 to 597 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
2010472
2020597+125 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 29 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

91 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 47 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
Natural47
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeNORTH MAIN
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreButte Field OfficeCORBIN
4 September 2007Natural14 acresCentral Land Officenot named
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
4 September 2000Naturalunder an acreButte Field OfficeSTAGECOACH
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land OfficeCLANCY CREEK
20 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresCentral Land OfficeGOLCONDA ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 121 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 121 workings within 5 miles of Jefferson City: 44 past producers, 27 occurrences, 21 prospects, 15 unknowns. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper. 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
Alahambra DistrictGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Manganese, Zinc, Silica, Uranium, Arsenic, MolybdenumPast Producer1921, 1957
Alhambra Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Alice MineSilver, Copper, LeadUnknown
Alta MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silica, Gold, AntimonyPast Producer1869
AriednaLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Banner MineGold, Lead, SilverProducerUnknown
Beaverton RanchCopper, UraniumOccurrence
BerthaSilver, Lead, Copper, Gold, ZincPast Producer
Bertha MineCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Bismuth, AntimonyPast Producer1917
Big ChiefLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson City in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2022Heavy RainJefferson City-Mesonet station tibm8 Tizer basin SNOTEL.
August 2011HailJefferson City-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Jefferson City 11NE.
August 2011HailJefferson City-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Jefferson City 11NE.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindJefferson City-A severe thunderstorm produced a 60 mph wind gust in Jefferson City.
June 2005HailJefferson City-no account filed
July 1998HailJefferson City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Corbin1.9 miles29
Alhambra4.8 miles19
Wickes4.8 miles29
New Haven (historical)5.6 miles19
Lewiston (historical)5.7 miles19
Clancy5.7 miles19
Portal6.0 miles29
Amazon6.3 miles29

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 Jefferson CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957631The 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 785437. 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.