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Lodge Grass, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Crow Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59050. It stands on Lodge Grass Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lodge Grass quadrangle. 441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,369 feet above sea level.

Lodge Grass within Big Horn County

On record in Lodge Grass

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 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lodge Grass grew from 428 to 441 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
2010428
2020441+13 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

329 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 329 fires within 5 miles of Lodge Grass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,192 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 36 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
Debris and open burning75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Fireworks40
Arson/incendiarism36
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural16
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Smoking14
Other causes8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony3

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
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarism22 acresCrow AgencyIRON HORSE
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor225 acresCrow AgencySUNDAY CRK
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrow AgencySLASH
8 September 1995Smoking1.5 acresCrow AgencyANDY FIRE
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrow Agency528
7 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresCrow AgencyWARD
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrow AgencyFALLSDOWN
6 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresCrow AgencyROADSIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lodge Grass: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lodge Grass in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 4 heavy rain, 1 wildfire. 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
August 1993HailLodge Grass$5,000no account filed
July 2019HailLodge Grass-The hail covered the ground.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-Tree limbs 1 to 1 1/2 inch in diameter were broken off trees.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-A wind gust of 58 mph was reported 9 miles east of Lodge Grass.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-A semi-trailer was flipped on I-90.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported 2 miles west of Lodge Grass.
June 2007Heavy RainLodge Grass-Rain from the event was 2.57 inches in 24 hours.
May 2005Heavy RainLodge Grass-1.28 inches of rain 5E Lodge Grass (Wolf Mountain RAWS 24-hour total)
May 2005Heavy RainLodge Grass-3.67 inches of rain fell 9E Lodge Grass (24-hour total from the Wolf Mountain RAWS)
May 2005Heavy RainLodge Grass-4.08 inches of rain 9E Lodge Grass (Wolf Mountain RAWS 2-day total)
June 2004HailLodge Grass-Mile post 519 on I-90
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-Wind damage. Gustnado ahead of storm downed a few trees.
May 2001WildfireLodge Grass-Corral Creek 2 wildfire burned approximately 400 acres east of Lodge Grass Montana.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-no account filed
July 2019HailLodge Grass-no account filed
June 2019HailLodge Grass-no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-no account filed
June 2005HailLodge Grass-no account filed
June 2005HailLodge Grass-no account filed
June 2002HailLodge Grass-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-no account filed
June 1996HailLodge Grass-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLodge Grass-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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
Forty Mile Colony3.1 miles13
Spear8.0 miles12
Benteen10.0 miles13
Wyola12.9 miles12
Garryowen14.9 miles7
Aberdeen17.9 miles12
Kirby20.3 miles7
Crow Agency20.5 miles7

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 Lodge GrassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959055The 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 773532. 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.