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Rocky Boy's Agency, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rocky Boy's census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59521. It stands on Daychild Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Boy quadrangle. 404 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,960 feet above sea level.

Rocky Boy's Agency within Hill County

Population over time

2 figures

Rocky Boy's Agency grew from 355 to 404 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
2010355
2020404+49 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

704 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 704 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Boy's Agency between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,920 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 143 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 burning236
Arson/incendiarism143
Misuse of fire by a minor80
Fireworks79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Natural37
Equipment and vehicle use30
Other causes17
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresRocky Boy's AgencyTENDOY
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencySTRIKE
9 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyJUICE
7 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyNO CHANCE
7 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresRocky Boy's Agencynot named
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRocky Boy's AgencyANDERSON
5 September 2020Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresChippewa Cree TribeARBOR
4 September 2020Smokingunder an acreChippewa Cree TribeRUSTY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill 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
Saint Pierre2.2 miles10
Sangrey2.6 miles9
Azure3.1 miles9
Shambo Springs7.0 miles10
Shambo (historical)8.2 miles10
Box Elder12.6 miles10
Laredo13.1 miles10
Oscar (historical)15.0 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 Rocky Boy's AgencyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5484762The 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 775873. 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.