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.
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.
St. Ignatius Missionlisted 1973 · 0.5 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSaint 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 842 | |
| 2020 | 768 | -74 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Saint Ignatius quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
150 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 85 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | MISSION5 |
| 28 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | DAMBRUSH |
| 26 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | 100 RD |
| 25 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | MISSION DAM 5 |
| 23 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.1 acres | Flathead Agency | DAM RIDGE |
| 22 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | MISSION DAM7 |
| 20 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | MISSION DAM#14 |
| 18 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Flathead Agency | KAKASHE TRAIL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravalli | 5.5 miles | 6 | |
| Post Creek | 5.5 miles | 6 | |
| Allentown | 8.3 miles | 6 | |
| Charlo | 9.2 miles | 6 | |
| Kicking Horse | 9.8 miles | 6 | |
| Moiese | 9.8 miles | 6 | |
| Arlee | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Ronan | 14.4 miles | 8 |
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 Ignatius | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q964697 | The 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.


