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Saint Ignatius, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1964. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59865. The Survey maps it on the Saint Ignatius quadrangle. 768 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,940 feet above sea level.

Saint Ignatius within Lake County

On record in Saint Ignatius

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Ignatius fell from 842 to 768 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
2010842
2020768-74 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Saint Ignatius between 1992 and 2020, burning about 674 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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 ceremony85
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
4 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyMISSION5
28 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyDAMBRUSH
26 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead Agency100 RD
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyMISSION DAM 5
23 September 2009Recreation and ceremony1.1 acresFlathead AgencyDAM RIDGE
22 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyMISSION DAM7
20 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyMISSION DAM#14
18 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyKAKASHE TRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Ignatius: 1 unknown. None of them 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

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
Ravalli5.5 miles6
Post Creek5.5 miles6
Allentown8.3 miles6
Charlo9.2 miles6
Kicking Horse9.8 miles6
Moiese9.8 miles6
Arlee10.9 miles9
Ronan14.4 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 Saint IgnatiusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964697The 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 776104. 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.