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South Browning, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the Blackfeet Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59417. It stands on Depot Creek. The Survey maps it on the Browning quadrangle. 1,970 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,393 feet above sea level.

South Browning within Glacier County

Population over time

3 figures

South Browning grew from 1,677 to 1,970 between 2000 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
20001,677
20101,785+108 (+6%)
20201,970+185 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

1,256 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,256 fires within 5 miles of South Browning between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27,966 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 66 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
Fireworks534
Missing data/not specified/undetermined210
Debris and open burning106
Misuse of fire by a minor89
Recreation and ceremony68
Arson/incendiarism66
Smoking56
Equipment and vehicle use40
Natural34
Other causes28
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Power generation/transmission/distribution6

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
9 September 2007Fireworksunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyGROUND FIRE
9 September 1994Smokingunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyMORMONCHRH
8 September 2018Debris and open burning2.1 acresBlackfeet AgencySPRING HILL
8 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyRED HEAD
8 September 2009Smokingunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyCORNER GROCERY FIRE
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyLITTLE BULL
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyBLUE BERRY HILL
8 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyONE ACRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Browning: 4 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 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Glacier 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
Browning0.7 miles9
North Browning1.7 miles9
Durham5.8 miles9
Starr School7.3 miles9
Blackfoot7.6 miles9
Star10.5 miles9
East Glacier Park13.0 miles11
East Glacier Park Village13.0 miles11

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 South BrowningAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q522828The 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 1867342. 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.