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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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
Superior Schoollisted 1997- Gildersleeve Minelisted 2002
- Swanson Homesteadlisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresSuperior 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 812 | |
| 2020 | 830 | +18 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Superior quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Superior quadrangle1:24000
- 1999 USGS Superior quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
238 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 89 |
| Debris and open burning | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 13 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
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 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | EAST PARDEE |
| 6 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | FLAT CREEK |
| 30 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | BARK PLANT PILE |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | AIRPORT FIRE |
| 28 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | THOMPSON CREEK |
| 27 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | TAMI DRIVE |
| 26 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | MRL MP 189 |
| 25 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lolo National Forest | WOOD FLAT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Mountain | Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Iron Mountain Mine | Copper, Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Antimony | Past Producer | 1889 | |
| Iron Mtn. | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper | Producer | Boulangerite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| King & Queen Mine | Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead | Producer | Vein | |
| Mountain Gem Mine | Silver, Lead, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Tootsie Creek Deposits | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Fluorite | |
| Montana Barite Pit | Barium-Barite | Producer | ||
| Victor Mancini Property | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | ||
| Victor Mancini Property | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | ||
| Big Day Placer | Gold | Occurrence | Placer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Hail | Superior | - | 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Superior | - | Debris flows were reported in Club Gulch in Flat Creek, Pardee Creek and at Shaw Gulch with moderate road damage. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Superior | - | Thunderstorm winds were reported to have blown down several trees and large limbs down along Quartz-Lozeau road. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Superior | - | Severe Thunderstorm downdraft winds blew several large trees down 5 miles west of Superior. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Superior | - | Two trees blew over onto a house. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Superior | - | Hail to 1.75 inches in diameter fell in a thunderstorm |
| June 2006 | Hail | Superior | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Superior | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Wildfire | Superior | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Flood | Superior | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Superior | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Superior | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oliverville | 1.1 miles | 8 | |
| Amador (historical) | 1.6 miles | 8 | |
| Cedar Mouth (historical) | 1.8 miles | 8 | |
| Riverbend | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Spring Gulch | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Hopkins | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Keystone | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Westfall | 7.3 miles | 8 |
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 Superior | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q956970 | 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 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.




