Pinesdale, Montana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59841. It lies near Sheridan Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton North quadrangle. 805 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,970 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPinesdale fell from 917 to 805 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 | 917 | |
| 2020 | 805 | -112 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1901 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Hamilton North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Hamilton North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
90 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Pinesdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,452 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 33 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | not named |
| 8 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | TWO BEARS |
| 8 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | FRED BURR |
| 6 September 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | SHEAFMAN |
| 28 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | NEW TRAILHEAD |
| 25 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.4 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | ROLLIN |
| 11 September 1996 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | MILL CR. |
| 1 September 2002 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | SHELF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pinesdale: 3 unknowns, 3 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ore Finder Group | Silver, Copper, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Pleasant View | Silver, Copper | Past Producer | 1871 | |
| Unnamed Location | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Blodgett Creek | Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium | Unknown | ||
| Mill Creek | Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium | Unknown | ||
| Sheafman Creek | Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium | Unknown | ||
| Bitterroot Prince | Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Bluebird | Silver | Prospect | ||
| Pleasant View | Silver | Prospect |
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinesdale in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Flood | Pinesdale | $1,000 | The Bitterroot River reached minor flood stage causing the Spring Gulch campground and low lying areas adjacent to the river to flood. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Hill (historical) | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Woodside | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Woodside Crossing | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Tucker | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Riverside | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Corvallis | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Quast | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Cobb | 6.1 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 Pinesdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q962327 | 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 794602. 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.







