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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.

Roberts within Carbon County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Roberts 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.

YearPeople Change
2010361
2020304-57 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

19 since 2008

Regional 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon County19-8610
4 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.2 acresSouthern Land OfficeDOT.COM
4 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestZIMMERMAN MUTUAL AID
31 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestCLEAR CREEK ASSIST
24 July 2019Naturalunder an acreCarbon County19-7921
24 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeNEHMI
21 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use45 acresSouthern Land OfficeCHERRY SPRINGS
19 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeBEACH CHERRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025HailRoberts-One and a half inch hail reported.
June 2025HailRoberts-One and a half inch hail reported.
June 2023Flash FloodRoberts-Cherry Springs road was washed out and was closed between Obert and Selms Road.
July 2023HailRoberts-Pea to quarter size hail was reported.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRoberts-Some trees were blown down, size unknown.
June 2007Flash FloodRoberts-Several stretches of area roads were under water, including 212 and 78. Homes were flooded in Roberts.
June 2007Flash FloodRoberts-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 1999HailRoberts-Spotter report of dime size hail near Cooney Reservoir.
June 2023Funnel CloudRoberts-no account filed
August 2019HailRoberts-no account filed
July 2019HailRoberts-no account filed
June 2018HailRoberts-no account filed
June 2008HailRoberts-no account filed
May 2004HailRoberts-no account filed
June 2004HailRoberts-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Selmes2.9 miles12
Fox6.3 miles10
Boyd8.6 miles11
Cherry Springs (historical)10.1 miles10
Red Lodge12.7 miles15
Simpkins Place13.1 miles13
Coalville (historical)13.3 miles10
Joliet13.6 miles10

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 RobertsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6110081The 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.