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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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
M. E. Doe Houselisted 1986
Granite County Jaillisted 1980
Miners Union Halllisted 1974
Philipsburg Historic Districtlisted 1986- Anderson Lumber Companylisted 1986
- Moose Lake Camp Historic Districtlisted 2017
- Philipsburg Grade Schoollisted 1986
- Ringeling Houselisted 1986
- Rock Creek Guard Station (24GN165)listed 1982
- Superintendent's Houselisted 1974
Population over time
2 figuresPhilipsburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 820 | |
| 2020 | 841 | +21 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1908 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
43 since 1994Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | FRANKLIN FIRE |
| 1 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 1 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 9 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Granite County | GRANITE |
| 9 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 6 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 6 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | BATHHOUSE CREEK |
| 4 August 1994 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Butte Field Office | FRED BURR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 165 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Mine | Silver, Manganese, Lead, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | 1865, 1878 | |
| Cadgie Taylor Mine | Silver, Zinc, Silica, Copper, Gold, Lead, Barium-Barite | Producer | Argentite, Cerargyrite, Chlorargyrite | |
| Cadgie-Taylor Mine | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Cliff Mine | Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Contact Mining Custom Mill | Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Copper Jack Mine | Copper, Iron, Garnet | Occurrence | ||
| Dissett Mine | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Aluminum | Past Producer | 1920, 1949 | |
| Franklin Hill Iron Deposit | Silica, Manganese, Iron | Past Producer | 1900, 1904 | |
| Gem Mine | Silver, Manganese, Gold, Copper, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Arsenic, Antimony | Past Producer | Replacement Vein | |
| Hobo Mine | Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Arsenic | Past Producer | 1884, 1892 |
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Hail | Philipsburg | $12,000 | State employee 14 miles south of Philipsburg near Georgetown Lake reported 1.75 inch hail. |
| July 2014 | Heavy Rain | Philipsburg | - | Weather observer reported 1.27 of rainfall. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Philipsburg | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Philipsburg | - | Weather spotter reported quarter size hail in Philipsburg. Eight miles northwest of Philipsburg, a camper reported half inch diameter hail at 5500 feet. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Philipsburg | - | Report of dime sized hail in Philipsburg. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Philipsburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Philipsburg | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Philipsburg | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Philipsburg | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clark (historical) | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Granite | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Rumsey | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Porters Corner | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Echo Lake (historical) | 7.0 miles | 16 | |
| Corral | 8.4 miles | 16 | |
| Princeton | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Maxville | 9.7 miles | 16 |
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 Philipsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q967012 | 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 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.







