Joliet, Montana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Joliet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59041. The Survey maps it on the Fromberg quadrangle. 577 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,737 feet above sea level.
On record in Joliet
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 9 records
Baker and Lovering Storelisted 1986
Fire Halllisted 1986
House on Railroad Avenuelisted 1986
Joliet Bridgelisted 1986
Rock Creek State Banklisted 1986- Joliet High Schoollisted 1986
- Joliet Residential Historic Districtlisted 1986
- T. W. Smith Houselisted 1986
- Southern Hotellisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresJoliet fell from 595 to 577 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 | 595 | |
| 2020 | 577 | -18 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fromberg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Bridger quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
19 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Joliet between 2002 and 2020, burning about 262 acres in total. 6 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 | 10 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | GRANITE |
| 2 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbon County | 10087 US HWY 212 1 |
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbon County | 19-8637 |
| 7 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Billings Field Office | MONAHAN |
| 2 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 3825 TRAILMASTER DR |
| 17 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 18-9321 |
| 16 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Southern Land Office | CFS18-9277 |
| 30 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | 9800 HWY 212 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joliet in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 16 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Joliet | - | Image on Facebook shows hailstone sightly smaller than a tennis ball. |
| May 2001 | Flash Flood | Joliet | - | Flooding of low lying roads and fields. Reported by spotters. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joliet | - | Wind damage. Roof blown off house and chicken coop blown over |
| July 2001 | Heavy Rain | Joliet | - | 0.3 inches of rain in 30 minutes |
| August 1999 | Hail | Joliet | - | Dime size hail reported. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joliet | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Joliet | - | 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.
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 Joliet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q959368 | 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 772882. 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.




