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Rocky Point, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59860. The Survey maps it on the Polson quadrangle. 111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,930 feet above sea level.

Rocky Point within Lake County

Population over time

3 figures

Rocky Point grew from 107 to 111 between 2000 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
2000107
201097-10 (-9%)
2020111+14 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 300 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony76
Natural23
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Fireworks6
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes2

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 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyJ-2000#3
8 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyJ-2000#2
8 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlathead AgencyKERR
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlathead AgencyLOG HOUSE
6 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencySILVER FOX
6 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyJETTE 9
5 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyJETTE KNOB
26 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyJETTE#10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Rocky Point: 6 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Redi Mix Concrete Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Jette1.4 miles7
Kings Point2.7 miles7
Polson3.0 miles7
Belle-Vue Court3.6 miles7
Kerr3.9 miles7
Lindisfarne5.7 miles7
Finley Point6.2 miles9
Turtle Lake7.2 miles9

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 PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q607430The 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 1853188. 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.