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Trego, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Eureka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59934. It stands on Cripple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stryker quadrangle. 515 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,117 feet above sea level.

Trego within Lincoln County

On record in Trego

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Trego fell from 541 to 515 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
2010541
2020515-26 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Trego between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,178 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning35
Natural32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 1993Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestSTEVEN'S LANE
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKootenai National ForestSOUTH DICKEY
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestSTRYKER RIDGE
3 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKootenai National ForestLAUGHING
21 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKootenai National ForestKASANKA MILL
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestLOON LAKE
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestFIR RIDGE
12 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKootenai National ForestTENDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trego in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. 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
August 1997HailTrego-no account filed

Every storm 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
Ant Flat1.4 miles13
Fortine4.5 miles13
Eagle Lake Ranch4.6 miles13
Stryker5.7 miles14
Fish Lake (historical)7.7 miles13
Tobacco10.4 miles13
Eureka15.5 miles10
Midvale16.0 miles10

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 TregoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5675598The 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 792364. 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.

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.