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Simms, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sun River Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59477. It stands on Simms Creek. The Survey maps it on the Simms quadrangle. 361 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,570 feet above sea level.

Simms within Cascade County

Population over time

2 figures

Simms grew from 354 to 361 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
2010354
2020361+7 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Simms in 2017, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSIMMS
2 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSIMMS
15 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSIMMS
28 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeFORT SHAW
12 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSIMMS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade 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 Simms: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Savoy QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cascade County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Simms in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1996HailSimms$1,600no account filed
June 2022HailSimms-Trained spotter reports quarter sized hail. Time estimated by radar.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSimms-Spotter reported cottonwood tree branches downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. Estimated branches were the size of fence posts. Time of report estimated via radar and gust magnitude estimated.
July 2007HailSimms-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Simms.
June 2007HailSimms-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Simms 1SSE.
June 2004HailSimms-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSimms-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSimms-no account filed
July 1998HailSimms-no account filed
June 1996HailSimms-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cascade 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
Lowry4.6 miles11
Olson Place4.6 miles10
Fort Shaw6.3 miles15
Cascade Colony6.7 miles13
Ashuelot7.7 miles15
Sun River11.3 miles13
Saint Peter13.1 miles13
Fair Haven Colony17.0 miles16

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 SimmsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960675The 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 776566. 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.