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.
Population over time
2 figuresSimms 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 354 | |
| 2020 | 361 | +7 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Simms quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Simms quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2017Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | SIMMS |
| 2 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | SIMMS |
| 15 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | SIMMS |
| 28 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | FORT SHAW |
| 12 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | SIMMS |
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savoy Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Hail | Simms | $1,600 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Simms | - | Trained spotter reports quarter sized hail. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Simms | - | 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 2007 | Hail | Simms | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Simms. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Simms | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Simms 1SSE. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Simms | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Simms | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Simms | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Simms | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Simms | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowry | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Olson Place | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Fort Shaw | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Cascade Colony | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Ashuelot | 7.7 miles | 15 | |
| Sun River | 11.3 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Peter | 13.1 miles | 13 | |
| Fair Haven Colony | 17.0 miles | 16 |
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 Simms | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q960675 | 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 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.





