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Sweet Grass, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sunburst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59484. The Survey maps it on the Sunburst quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,497 feet above sea level.

Sweet Grass within Toole County

On record in Sweet Grass

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Sweet Grass grew from 58 to 65 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
201058
202065+7 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sweet Grass between 2018 and 2019, burning about 10 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreToole CountyHORGUS
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
15 October 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Toole 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
Hillside Colony5.8 miles11
Sunburst8.2 miles9
Rim Rock Colony9.9 miles11
Ohio Camp12.8 miles9
Demers (historical)13.4 miles11
Kevin17.3 miles8
Oilmont18.8 miles8
Ferdig19.4 miles9

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 Sweet GrassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2841245The 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 777367. 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.