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.
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.
- Lodgepole Community Halllisted 2000 · 0.0 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresLodge 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 265 | |
| 2020 | 294 | +29 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Lodge Pole quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Dodson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
91 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 25 |
| Natural | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | MAIN |
| 6 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.9 acres | North Central Montana District | BEAVER MOUNTAIN |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | BLAIR |
| 3 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fort Belknap Agency | TAURS |
| 20 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fort Belknap Agency | DUMPSTER |
| 2 September 2007 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | GOAT |
| 18 September 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Fort Belknap Agency | CURLY HEAD |
| 9 August 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Belknap Agency | BILLY GOAT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Warm Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Warm (historical) | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Dry Lake | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Pine Grove | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Hays | 9.1 miles | 9 | |
| Cow Island (historical) | 27.3 miles | 11 | |
| Rattlesnake | 27.7 miles | 10 | |
| Power Plant (historical) | 28.2 miles | 10 | |
| Coburg | 29.2 miles | 7 |
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 Pole | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q955921 | 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 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.




