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Silíp, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59831. It stands on Jocko River. The Survey maps it on the Dixon quadrangle. 221 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,523 feet above sea level.

Silíp within Sanders County

Population over time

3 figures

Silíp grew from 216 to 221 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
2000216
2010203-13 (-6%)
2020221+18 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Silíp between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,633 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 2 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
Natural38
Recreation and ceremony33
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2016Naturalunder an acreNational Bison RangeBITTERROOT TRAIL
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyDUNES#1
23 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead AgencyMIDDLEMIST
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism478 acresFlathead AgencyD HILL
16 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyFOUST
14 September 2014Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFlathead AgencyNORTH DIXON
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencySELOW
9 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencySELOW DIVIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanders County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Silíp: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Slow Poke ProspectGold, Silver, CopperOccurrenceUnderground
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sanders 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
Old Agency1.3 miles6
Agency1.3 miles6
McDonald7.9 miles6
Sloan12.2 miles6
Perma14.7 miles8
Camas Prairie18.5 miles8
Knowles21.3 miles9
Island City (historical)25.4 miles8

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 SilípAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955875The 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 770675. 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.