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Philipsburg, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Philipsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59858. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Philipsburg quadrangle. 841 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,243 feet above sea level.

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Philipsburg within Granite County

On record in Philipsburg

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 10 records

Population over time

2 figures

Philipsburg grew from 820 to 841 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
2010820
2020841+21 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Philipsburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 330 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestFRANKLIN FIRE
1 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
1 September 2004Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
9 August 2020Naturalunder an acreGranite CountyGRANITE
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
6 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeBATHHOUSE CREEK
4 August 1994Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreButte Field OfficeFRED BURR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Granite County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 165 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 165 workings within 5 miles of Philipsburg: 91 past producers, 38 unknowns, 26 occurrences, 5 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Manganese, Gold, Silver, Manganese. 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
Algonquin MineSilver, Manganese, Lead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1865, 1878
Cadgie Taylor MineSilver, Zinc, Silica, Copper, Gold, Lead, Barium-BariteProducerArgentite, Cerargyrite, Chlorargyrite
Cadgie-Taylor MineGold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Cliff MineGold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Contact Mining Custom MillGold, Lead, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Copper Jack MineCopper, Iron, GarnetOccurrence
Dissett MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, AluminumPast Producer1920, 1949
Franklin Hill Iron DepositSilica, Manganese, IronPast Producer1900, 1904
Gem MineSilver, Manganese, Gold, Copper, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Arsenic, AntimonyPast ProducerReplacement Vein
Hobo MineSilver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, ArsenicPast Producer1884, 1892

Every working recorded in Granite County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Philipsburg in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2008HailPhilipsburg$12,000State employee 14 miles south of Philipsburg near Georgetown Lake reported 1.75 inch hail.
July 2014Heavy RainPhilipsburg-Weather observer reported 1.27 of rainfall.
June 2011FloodPhilipsburg-Boulder creek near Maxville flooded and isolated one resident. A road flooded near the east fork of Rock creek. Debris piled up against many bridges across the county. Many residents protected their property with sandbags.
July 2009HailPhilipsburg-Weather spotter reported quarter size hail in Philipsburg. Eight miles northwest of Philipsburg, a camper reported half inch diameter hail at 5500 feet.
July 2009HailPhilipsburg-Report of dime sized hail in Philipsburg.
August 2005HailPhilipsburg-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindPhilipsburg-no account filed
July 1997HailPhilipsburg-no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindPhilipsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Granite 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
Clark (historical)1.0 miles15
Granite2.8 miles17
Rumsey3.6 miles15
Porters Corner5.9 miles15
Echo Lake (historical)7.0 miles16
Corral8.4 miles16
Princeton9.0 miles16
Maxville9.7 miles16

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 PhilipsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967012The 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 788813. 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.