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Starr School, 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 South Fork Cut Bank Creek. The Survey maps it on the Starr School quadrangle. 267 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,685 feet above sea level.

Starr School within Glacier County

Population over time

3 figures

Starr School grew from 248 to 267 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
2000248
2010252+4 (+2%)
2020267+15 (+6%)

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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Starr School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 609 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Fireworks41
Debris and open burning30
Recreation and ceremony22
Smoking17
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural8
Other causes6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyFRAME
8 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresBlackfeet AgencyONE ACRE
8 September 2005Naturalunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyNEW ROBE
7 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresBlackfeet AgencySPOTTEDROB
7 September 1994Smokingunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyMUSEUMFIRE
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresBlackfeet Agency89 NORTH
4 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyWHITEGRASS
29 September 2015Smokingunder an acreBlackfeet AgencyQUAKEN ASPEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Starr School: 7 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, 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
East Kiowa No. 2 ExtensionIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Lower Kiowa DepositsTitanium, IronOccurrence
South ForkIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Star School DepositIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Two Medicine RidgeIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Cutbank RidgeIronOccurrence
High Knob DepositIronOccurrence

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
Star4.9 miles9
Durham5.0 miles9
North Browning7.1 miles9
Browning7.1 miles9
South Browning7.3 miles9
Kiowa7.5 miles10
East Glacier Park Village10.7 miles11
East Glacier Park11.0 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 Starr SchoolAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961427The 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 777160. 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.