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Muddy, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Northern Cheyenne Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59043. It stands on Black Spring Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Painted Hill quadrangle. 646 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,245 feet above sea level.

Muddy within Big Horn County

Population over time

2 figures

Muddy grew from 617 to 646 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
2010617
2020646+29 (+5%)

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

564 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 564 fires within 5 miles of Muddy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,660 acres in total. 105 started naturally. 65 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
Misuse of fire by a minor115
Natural105
Fireworks82
Debris and open burning74
Arson/incendiarism65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Recreation and ceremony29
Equipment and vehicle use16
Other causes11
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorthern Cheyenne AgencyBADGER
9 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNorthern Cheyenne AgencyBAPTIST
9 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresNorthern Cheyenne AgencyMATCH BOOK
8 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthern Cheyenne AgencyCOWBOY CAMP
7 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNorthern Cheyenne AgencyICECREAM
5 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Cheyenne AgencyLITTLEWOLF
5 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNorthern Cheyenne AgencyWEST SIDE
5 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNorthern Cheyenne AgencyWALKSLAST

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Muddy: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. 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
Clay PitBentoniteOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Busby11.9 miles8
Sarpy (historical)15.8 miles6
Kirby23.2 miles7
McRae (historical)26.0 miles6
Garryowen35.6 miles7
Benteen35.6 miles13
Crow Agency37.2 miles7
Lodge Grass38.4 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 MuddyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959317The 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 1716505. 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.