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Lincoln, Montana

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Lincoln census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59639. It stands on Sucker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle. 998 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,541 feet above sea level.

Lincoln within Lewis and Clark County

On record in Lincoln

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Lincoln fell from 1,100 to 998 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,100
20101,013-87 (-8%)
2020998-15 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

236 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,466 acres in total. 70 started naturally. 3 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
Natural70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Debris and open burning52
Recreation and ceremony33
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeDALTON MTN FIRE
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeBEAR GULCH
4 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeSTEMPLE PASS
30 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeFIRST AVENUE
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
3 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Lincoln: 10 past producers, 9 occurrences, 4 prospects, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Lead. 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
Baldy Mountain ClaimsGold, LeadPast Producer
Big BlackfootSilver, Lead, GoldPlantEpithermal vein, quartz adularia
Discovery and Margurete MineGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Golden Dollar #5 LodeLead, Copper, GoldProspectVein
Lincoln Gulch DistrictGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer1865
Lincoln Gulch PlacerGold, TungstenPast Producer1865
Pack Horse LodeGold, Lead, CopperProspectVein
Western Fuel Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rose No. 1Silver, GoldOccurrenceUnknown
Rose No. 2Silver, GoldOccurrenceUnknown

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Storms near this place

17 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincoln in 17 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Heavy RainLincoln-Mesonet station nvrm8 11.3 se Lincoln.
April 2018FloodLincoln-Lincoln Volunteer Fire Chief relayed multiple reports of flooding in and around Lincoln on April 29th and 30th.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLincoln-Lincoln Fire Department reported a large pine tree was downed/snapped at base by a thunderstorm wind gust. The magnitude of the gust was estimated. Also, the time and location of event were estimated via radar. Lastly, pea-size hail and 0.40-inches of rainfall in 30-minutes were also reported.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindLincoln-Mesonet Station TT010 reported a 63 mph wind gust from a thunderstorm.
September 2013HailLincoln-Hail measuring 1.50 inches (ping pong ball sized) and heavy rain were reported.
June 2012HailLincoln-Quarter sized hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported 7 miles S of Lincoln near Stemple Pass.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLincoln-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 88 mph at Lincoln 3E (the Lincoln RAWS site).
July 2008HailLincoln-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Lincoln 12E.
August 2008HailLincoln-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Lincoln 25NE.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLincoln-A severe thunderstorm produced a 60 mph wind gust at Lincoln.
August 2002HailLincoln-A severe thunderstorm produced 1.00 inch hail in Lincoln.
May 2001HailLincoln-Lincoln spotter.
July 2000HailLincoln-Funnel cloud also reported near Rogers Pass.
June 2004Flash FloodLincoln-no account filed
June 2004Flash FloodLincoln-no account filed
June 2004HailLincoln-no account filed
August 2003HailLincoln-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis and Clark 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
Copper Camp (historical)9.9 miles12
Silver King (historical)14.5 miles11
Mike Horse (historical)17.7 miles11
Atlantic City (historical)18.2 miles22
Wilborn18.6 miles20
Strom20.1 miles20
Gloster22.5 miles21
Frost (historical)23.8 miles13

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 LincolnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966705The 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 801064. 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.