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Old Agency, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59831. It stands on Jocko River. The Survey maps it on the Dixon quadrangle. 81 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,526 feet above sea level.

Old Agency within Sanders County

Population over time

3 figures

Old Agency fell from 95 to 81 between 2000 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
200095
2010107+12 (+13%)
202081-26 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Old Agency between 1992 and 2019, burning about 923 acres in total. 36 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
Natural36
Recreation and ceremony33
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2016Naturalunder an acreNational Bison RangeBITTERROOT TRAIL
3 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreFlathead AgencyMOIESE
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyDUNES#1
23 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead AgencyMIDDLEMIST
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism478 acresFlathead AgencyD HILL
16 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyFOUST
14 September 2014Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFlathead AgencyNORTH DIXON
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencySELOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanders 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 Old Agency: 3 unknowns. 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 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Agency0.1 miles6
Silíp1.3 miles6
McDonald8.8 miles6
Sloan11.4 miles6
Perma15.5 miles8
Camas Prairie18.9 miles8
Knowles22.1 miles9
Island City (historical)26.3 miles8

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 Old AgencyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968390The 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 1853185. 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.