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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.

Pinesdale within Ravalli County

Population over time

2 figures

Pinesdale 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.

YearPeople Change
2010917
2020805-112 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

90 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural33
Recreation and ceremony25
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3

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
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBitterroot National Forestnot named
8 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBitterroot National ForestTWO BEARS
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestFRED BURR
6 September 2012Natural1.0 acresBitterroot National ForestSHEAFMAN
28 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBitterroot National ForestNEW TRAILHEAD
25 September 2008Debris and open burning1.4 acresBitterroot National ForestROLLIN
11 September 1996Smoking3.0 acresBitterroot National ForestMILL CR.
1 September 2002Natural1.5 acresBitterroot National ForestSHELF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ore Finder GroupSilver, Copper, GoldProspect
Pleasant ViewSilver, CopperPast Producer1871
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Blodgett CreekTitanium, Iron, Thorium, ZirconiumUnknown
Mill CreekTitanium, Iron, Thorium, ZirconiumUnknown
Sheafman CreekTitanium, Iron, Thorium, ZirconiumUnknown
Bitterroot PrinceSilverPast Producer
BluebirdSilverProspect
Pleasant ViewSilverProspect

Every working recorded in Ravalli County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018FloodPinesdale$1,000The Bitterroot River reached minor flood stage causing the Spring Gulch campground and low lying areas adjacent to the river to flood.

Every storm recorded in Ravalli 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
Dutch Hill (historical)1.6 miles17
Woodside3.5 miles17
Woodside Crossing4.0 miles17
Tucker4.9 miles17
Riverside4.9 miles17
Corvallis5.6 miles16
Quast6.0 miles16
Cobb6.1 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 PinesdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962327The 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.