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Noxon, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Thompson Falls-West End census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59853. It stands on Soldier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Noxon quadrangle. 255 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,185 feet above sea level.

Noxon within Sanders County

On record in Noxon

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Noxon grew from 218 to 255 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
2010218
2020255+37 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Noxon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 27 started naturally. None was 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
Natural27
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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 2009Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestSOLDIER CREEK
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKootenai National Forestnot named
27 September 2006Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestGOVERNMENT LOOKOUT
22 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKootenai National Forestnot named
18 September 1998Natural2.0 acresKootenai National ForestORR GULCH
18 September 1998Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestBASIN COPPER
15 September 2010Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestROCK RIDGE
13 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreKootenai National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanders 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 Noxon: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Calcium, 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
MillerCopper, LeadProspect
White StarCalcium, CopperUnknown
Miller ProspectCopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite
White Star ProspectCopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite

Every working recorded in Sanders County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Noxon in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 1997Thunderstorm WindNoxon-Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 65 mph measured at Noxon school weather station. Numerous trees and power lines knocked down with power outages.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindNoxon-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindNoxon-no account filed
July 1998HailNoxon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanders 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
Smead (historical)4.3 miles14
Tuscor8.0 miles12
Heron10.3 miles14
Larchwood12.9 miles12
Cedar (historical)13.4 miles14
Trout Creek14.7 miles13
Childs21.7 miles9
White Pine23.6 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 NoxonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964319The 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 788328. 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.