Roberts, Montana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Roberts census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59070. It lies near Church Hill. The Survey maps it on the Roberts quadrangle. 304 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,583 feet above sea level.
On record in Roberts
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
- Kero Farmstead Historic Districtlisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresRoberts fell from 361 to 304 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 | 361 | |
| 2020 | 304 | -57 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1932 USGS Red Lodge No 1 quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Roberts quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Red Lodge quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
19 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Roberts between 2008 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbon County | 19-8610 |
| 4 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.2 acres | Southern Land Office | DOT.COM |
| 4 July 2008 | Fireworks | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | ZIMMERMAN MUTUAL AID |
| 31 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | CLEAR CREEK ASSIST |
| 24 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Carbon County | 19-7921 |
| 24 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | NEHMI |
| 21 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Southern Land Office | CHERRY SPRINGS |
| 19 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Southern Land Office | BEACH CHERRY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roberts in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Hail | Roberts | - | One and a half inch hail reported. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Roberts | - | One and a half inch hail reported. |
| June 2023 | Flash Flood | Roberts | - | Cherry Springs road was washed out and was closed between Obert and Selms Road. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Roberts | - | Pea to quarter size hail was reported. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roberts | - | Some trees were blown down, size unknown. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Roberts | - | Several stretches of area roads were under water, including 212 and 78. Homes were flooded in Roberts. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Roberts | - | Water was over the road on Highway 72 south of Belfry, with the highway closed in Wyoming. Flooding was reported on country roads in the area. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Roberts | - | Spotter report of dime size hail near Cooney Reservoir. |
| June 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Roberts | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Roberts | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selmes | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Fox | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Boyd | 8.6 miles | 11 | |
| Cherry Springs (historical) | 10.1 miles | 10 | |
| Red Lodge | 12.7 miles | 15 | |
| Simpkins Place | 13.1 miles | 13 | |
| Coalville (historical) | 13.3 miles | 10 | |
| Joliet | 13.6 miles | 10 |
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 Roberts | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6110081 | 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 775824. 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.
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.





