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.
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
- Fortin Ranch Houselisted 2025
Population over time
2 figuresTrego 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 541 | |
| 2020 | 515 | -26 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1913 USGS Stryker quadrangle1:125000
- 1916 USGS Stryker quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Stryker quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Whitefish Range quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Stryker quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
127 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 35 |
| Natural | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | STEVEN'S LANE |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | SOUTH DICKEY |
| 3 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | STRYKER RIDGE |
| 3 September 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | LAUGHING |
| 21 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | KASANKA MILL |
| 17 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | LOON LAKE |
| 17 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | FIR RIDGE |
| 12 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kootenai National Forest | TENDER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Hail | Trego | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ant Flat | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Fortine | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Eagle Lake Ranch | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Stryker | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Fish Lake (historical) | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Tobacco | 10.4 miles | 13 | |
| Eureka | 15.5 miles | 10 | |
| Midvale | 16.0 miles | 10 |
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 Trego | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5675598 | 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 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.







