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Silver Gate, Montana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Gardiner-Cooke City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59081. It lies near Meridian Peak. The Survey maps it on the Cooke City quadrangle. 19 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,392 feet above sea level.

Silver Gate within Park County

Population over time

2 figures

Silver Gate fell from 20 to 19 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
201020
202019-1 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Silver Gate between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None was 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
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

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
23 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestMINERAL
12 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestCHIMNEY ROCK
7 August 1999Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkABIATHAR
31 August 2002Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestMILLER CREEK
30 August 2009Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkMERIDIAN
26 August 2003Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkREPUBLIC
16 August 1996Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestHENDERSON
10 August 2005Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestMINERAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Silver Gate: 26 past producers, 19 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, 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
Black WarriorSilver, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Bull Elk LodeLead, Gold, Silver, Zinc, CopperProducer1934
Bull Elk LodeLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldUnknown
Crown Butte and Melissa MineGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Fire Clay ClaimFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Glengarry MineSilver, Copper, GoldOccurrenceContact Metamorphic
Homestake MineGold, Copper, ManganesePast Producer1890
Josephine LodeLead, Gold, SilverProspect1882
Lulu Extension LodeCopper, Silver, GoldProspect1917
Mohawk WarriorGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver Gate in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017HailSilver Gate-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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
Cooke City3.0 miles17
Independence19.7 miles23
Lazy Day (historical)23.3 miles23
Jardine34.4 miles23
Contact36.8 miles22
Montanapolis Springs (historical)37.1 miles22
Gardiner38.0 miles23
White City42.2 miles21

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 Silver GateAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9077387The 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 790515. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.