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Lodge Pole, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Belknap census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59524. The Survey maps it on the Lodge Pole quadrangle. 294 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,409 feet above sea level.

Lodge Pole within Blaine County

On record in Lodge Pole

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Lodge Pole grew from 265 to 294 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
2010265
2020294+29 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Lodge Pole between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 2 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 burning25
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes5
Fireworks5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism2

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
9 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFort Belknap AgencyMAIN
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremony4.9 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictBEAVER MOUNTAIN
3 September 2000Natural1.0 acresFort Belknap AgencyBLAIR
3 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFort Belknap AgencyTAURS
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreFort Belknap AgencyDUMPSTER
2 September 2007Other causes1.0 acresFort Belknap AgencyGOAT
18 September 1998Natural3.0 acresFort Belknap AgencyCURLY HEAD
9 August 2014Naturalunder an acreFort Belknap AgencyBILLY GOAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lodge Pole: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Big Warm SpringsGeothermalProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Blaine 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
Big Warm (historical)4.6 miles7
Dry Lake6.1 miles7
Pine Grove8.2 miles9
Hays9.1 miles9
Cow Island (historical)27.3 miles11
Rattlesnake27.7 miles10
Power Plant (historical)28.2 miles10
Coburg29.2 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 PoleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955921The 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 773540. 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.