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.
Population over time
2 figuresSilver 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 20 | |
| 2020 | 19 | -1 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1898 USGS Granite Mountain District quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Cooke City quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Cooke City quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Red Lodge quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Cooke City quadrangle1:24000
- 2000 USGS Cooke City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | MINERAL |
| 12 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | CHIMNEY ROCK |
| 7 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | ABIATHAR |
| 31 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | MILLER CREEK |
| 30 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | MERIDIAN |
| 26 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | REPUBLIC |
| 16 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | HENDERSON |
| 10 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | MINERAL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 54 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Warrior | Silver, Lead, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Bull Elk Lode | Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper | Producer | 1934 | |
| Bull Elk Lode | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold | Unknown | ||
| Crown Butte and Melissa Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Fire Clay Claim | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Glengarry Mine | Silver, Copper, Gold | Occurrence | Contact Metamorphic | |
| Homestake Mine | Gold, Copper, Manganese | Past Producer | 1890 | |
| Josephine Lode | Lead, Gold, Silver | Prospect | 1882 | |
| Lulu Extension Lode | Copper, Silver, Gold | Prospect | 1917 | |
| Mohawk Warrior | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2017Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Hail | Silver Gate | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooke City | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Independence | 19.7 miles | 23 | |
| Lazy Day (historical) | 23.3 miles | 23 | |
| Jardine | 34.4 miles | 23 | |
| Contact | 36.8 miles | 22 | |
| Montanapolis Springs (historical) | 37.1 miles | 22 | |
| Gardiner | 38.0 miles | 23 | |
| White City | 42.2 miles | 21 |
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 Gate | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q9077387 | 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 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.








