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Pryor, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Crow Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59066. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pryor quadrangle. 637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,062 feet above sea level.

Pryor within Big Horn County

On record in Pryor

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Pryor grew from 618 to 637 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
2010618
2020637+19 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Pryor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,168 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 22 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
Debris and open burning74
Fireworks70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Natural36
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Equipment and vehicle use21
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony7
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use40 acresCrow AgencyKERN
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCrow AgencyTURN
7 September 2017Natural1.0 acresCrow AgencyGAP ROAD
7 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrow AgencyHOME
5 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCrow AgencyCERVANTES
5 September 1994Smokingunder an acreCrow Agencynot named
4 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCrow AgencyARROW CREEK
4 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use524 acresCrow AgencyROADSIDE 484

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pryor: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Unnamed Clay and Shale OccurrenceClayOccurrence
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pryor in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2025HailPryor-Two and a half inch hail reported.
June 2025HailPryor-Two and 3 quarters inch hail reported.
June 2025HailPryor-Report from mping.
June 2025HailPryor-Two inch hail reported.
May 2019Flash FloodPryor-A nearly stationary thunderstorm was situated over portions of western Big Horn County during the late evening hours on the 26th into the early morning hours of the 27th. Several inches of rain fell across this area within just a few hours. Flash flooding occurred on Pryor, Fly and Woody Creeks which resulted in damage to roads and bridges. Culverts were also displaced. Damage to trap and skeet field buildings at a fishing and shooting club was also reported.
March 2014FloodPryor-Low land flooding occurred near Wyola as some houses were flooded.
July 2013HailPryor-Hail was mostly dime size with a few quarter size and was accompanied by 55 mph winds.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPryor-Two large Cottonwood trees were toppled. In addition, hail (size unknown) damaged trailers and resulted in broken out windshields.
June 2010Flash FloodPryor-Flooding was reported on Bowler Flats in the Pryors. In addition, water was flowing across Railbed Road due to flooding along Sage Creek.
May 2001HailPryor-.75 inch hail reported by law enforcement.
July 2005HailPryor-no account filed
July 2004HailPryor-no account filed
July 1998HailPryor-no account filed
July 1998HailPryor-no account filed
July 1998HailPryor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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
Fort Smith32.6 miles13
Toluca41.3 miles10
Corinth42.1 miles11
Saint Xavier43.1 miles13
Rowley45.1 miles10
Hardin53.1 miles12
Carperville (historical)57.0 miles11
Dunmore57.2 miles12

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 PryorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961478The 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 775473. 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.