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Saint Xavier, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Crow Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59075. It lies in Saint Xavier Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Saint Xavier quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,077 feet above sea level.

Saint Xavier within Big Horn County

On record in Saint Xavier

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 Xavier fell from 83 to 78 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
201083
202078-5 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Saint Xavier between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,896 acres in total. 30 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
Debris and open burning39
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking4
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCrow AgencyPAT
4 September 2001Natural40 acresCrow AgencyS.ROHENGR
4 September 2001Natural150 acresCrow AgencyWESTROTTEN
4 September 2001Natural3.0 acresCrow AgencyEASTROTTEN
26 September 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresCrow Agencynot named
24 September 2012Natural1.0 acresCrow AgencyHILL
23 September 2003Debris and open burning1.5 acresCrow AgencyHEDOESIT
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrow AgencySTRAW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Saint Xavier: 6 unknowns. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn 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
Fort Smith15.3 miles13
Garryowen16.6 miles7
Crow Agency16.9 miles7
Benteen17.2 miles13
Rowley18.5 miles10
Dunmore18.9 miles12
Hardin19.6 miles12
Toluca21.3 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 Saint XavierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959239The 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 776137. 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.