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Pony, Montana

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Harrison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59747. It stands on Pony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pony quadrangle. 127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,525 feet above sea level.

Pony within Madison County

On record in Pony

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Pony grew from 118 to 127 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
2010118
2020127+9 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Pony between 1999 and 2020, burning about 5,223 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremony32 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestCATARACT
5 September 2005Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestCARMICHAEL
15 September 2020Natural2.5 acresMadison CountyHWY 359
15 September 2020Arson/incendiarism27 acresMadison CountyWILSON LANE
25 August 2000Natural1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
21 August 2020Natural3.8 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPOTOSI
12 July 2009Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPONY FIRE
24 June 2012Natural5,157 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPONY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Pony: 34 past producers, 12 occurrences, 9 prospects, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Iron. 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
Antelope-PonyPlatinum, Iridium, OsmiumOccurrence
Antelope-Pony DistrictChromium, Osmium, IridiumOccurrenceChromite
Blue Rock and May BasketLead, Silver, MolybdenumProspect
Boss Tweed and ClipperGold, Silver, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Bozeman MineGold, Zinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Clark's Warm SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Garnet Gold MineGold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Garnet MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, ZincPast ProducerGalena
IndependentTungsten, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, IronOccurrence1906
Jumper ClaimsGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pony in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPony-Beaverhead/Deerlodge National Forest Personnel estimated between 200 to 250 acres of trees were blown down from a severe thunderstorm that moved over the area. the blow down resulted in a trail leading back to Granite Lake in the Tobacco Root Mountains to become blocked. At least four people became stranded and had to be rescued by the joint effort of the Madison County Search and Rescue, Forest Service Fire Team, and US Airforce helicopter support. A storm survey conducted by National Weather Service Great Falls discovered that this event was a microburst.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Shaws6.1 miles21
Harrison6.4 miles21
Mammoth6.5 miles16
Beals7.2 miles21
Summit Valley7.7 miles21
Harrison Mill8.3 miles21
Stringtown (historical)9.2 miles21
Sterling9.6 miles22

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 PonyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7228437The 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 789074. 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.