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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.

Joliet within Carbon County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Joliet 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.

YearPeople Change
2010595
2020577-18 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

19 since 2002

Regional 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/undetermined10
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeGRANITE
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon County10087 US HWY 212 1
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon County19-8637
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBillings Field OfficeMONAHAN
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land Office3825 TRAILMASTER DR
17 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouthern Land Office18-9321
16 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeCFS18-9277
30 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land Office9800 HWY 212

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

20 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025HailJoliet-Image on Facebook shows hailstone sightly smaller than a tennis ball.
May 2001Flash FloodJoliet-Flooding of low lying roads and fields. Reported by spotters.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindJoliet-Wind damage. Roof blown off house and chicken coop blown over
July 2001Heavy RainJoliet-0.3 inches of rain in 30 minutes
August 1999HailJoliet-Dime size hail reported.
June 2018HailJoliet-no account filed
June 2018HailJoliet-no account filed
June 2018HailJoliet-no account filed
May 2016HailJoliet-no account filed
June 2013HailJoliet-no account filed
June 2006HailJoliet-no account filed
June 2005HailJoliet-no account filed
July 2005HailJoliet-no account filed
June 2004HailJoliet-no account filed
June 2001HailJoliet-no account filed
July 2001HailJoliet-no account filed
July 2001HailJoliet-no account filed
July 2001HailJoliet-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindJoliet-no account filed
July 2000HailJoliet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Montaqua4.0 miles10
Boyd5.4 miles11
Rockvale6.3 miles9
Coalville (historical)6.4 miles10
Edgar6.4 miles10
Fromberg7.3 miles10
Silesia8.4 miles9
Selmes10.7 miles12

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 JolietAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959368The 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.