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Sylvanite, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59935. It stands on Crawford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sylvanite quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,690 feet above sea level.

Sylvanite within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Sylvanite fell from 103 to 98 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
2010103
202098-5 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Sylvanite between 1992 and 2020, burning about 609 acres in total. 50 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
Natural50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
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 2006Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestSKOOKUM
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestDEAD BATTERY
4 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKootenai National ForestYAAK FALLS
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresKootenai National ForestSEVENTEEN MILE
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestINDEPENDENCE
11 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKootenai National ForestEASTSIDE
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestSADDLE MOUNTAIN
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestABE'S BEARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sylvanite: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead. 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
Gold Flint-Key StoneGold, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
SylvaniteSilver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Yaak FallsGold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, LeadProspect
FerrelGold, SilverOccurrence
HaywireGold, SilverUnknown
New Morning GloryGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Yaak11.9 miles8
Yakt12.8 miles9
Troy17.5 miles14
Kootenai Falls19.1 miles14
Green Acres27.3 miles14
Libby28.2 miles14
Stonehill (historical)30.5 miles9
Dodge Summit30.7 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 SylvaniteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6136742The 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 791836. 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.