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Superior, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Superior census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59872. It stands on Flat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Superior quadrangle. 830 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,762 feet above sea level.

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Superior within Mineral County

On record in Superior

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Superior grew from 812 to 830 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
2010812
2020830+18 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Superior between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,721 acres in total. 89 started naturally. 3 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
Natural89
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Recreation and ceremony22
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Fireworks7
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism3

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLolo National ForestEAST PARDEE
6 September 2009Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestFLAT CREEK
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLolo National ForestBARK PLANT PILE
3 September 2000Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestAIRPORT FIRE
28 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreLolo National ForestTHOMPSON CREEK
27 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreLolo National ForestTAMI DRIVE
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLolo National ForestMRL MP 189
25 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLolo National ForestWOOD FLAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Superior: 5 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Barium-Barite, Silver, Lead, Zinc. 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
Iron MountainZinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Iron Mountain MineCopper, Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, AntimonyPast Producer1889
Iron Mtn.Lead, Zinc, Silver, CopperProducerBoulangerite, Galena, Sphalerite
King & Queen MineSilver, Gold, Zinc, Copper, LeadProducerVein
Mountain Gem MineSilver, Lead, ZincUnknown
Tootsie Creek DepositsFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Montana Barite PitBarium-BariteProducer
Victor Mancini PropertyBarium-BariteOccurrence
Victor Mancini PropertyBarium-BariteOccurrence
Big Day PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Mineral County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Superior in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 wildfire. 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
May 2015HailSuperior-A trained spotter reported penny-sized hail in Superior, with 0.50 inches of rain falling in 30 min. Winds estimated at 40 to 50 mph accompanied this report.
August 2014Flash FloodSuperior-Debris flows were reported in Club Gulch in Flat Creek, Pardee Creek and at Shaw Gulch with moderate road damage.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSuperior-Thunderstorm winds were reported to have blown down several trees and large limbs down along Quartz-Lozeau road.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSuperior-Severe Thunderstorm downdraft winds blew several large trees down 5 miles west of Superior.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSuperior-Two trees blew over onto a house.
July 1998HailSuperior-Hail to 1.75 inches in diameter fell in a thunderstorm
June 2006HailSuperior-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSuperior-no account filed
August 2003WildfireSuperior-no account filed
April 2002FloodSuperior-no account filed
August 1998HailSuperior-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSuperior-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mineral 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
Oliverville1.1 miles8
Amador (historical)1.6 miles8
Cedar Mouth (historical)1.8 miles8
Riverbend4.1 miles8
Spring Gulch5.4 miles8
Hopkins5.4 miles8
Keystone5.8 miles8
Westfall7.3 miles8

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 SuperiorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q956970The 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 791730. 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.