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Trout Creek, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Thompson Falls-West End census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59874. It stands on Trout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trout Creek quadrangle. 277 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,372 feet above sea level.

Trout Creek within Sanders County

Population over time

3 figures

Trout Creek grew from 261 to 277 between 2000 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
2000261
2010242-19 (-7%)
2020277+35 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Trout Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 39 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 9 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
Natural21
Debris and open burning14
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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 2011Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestGALENA
7 September 2007Smoking6.0 acresKootenai National Forest20 ODD
29 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKootenai National ForestBLUE SLIDE
22 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreKootenai National ForestSWAMP CREEK
21 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKootenai National ForestGRAVEL PIT #3
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKootenai National ForestGRAVEL PIT #2
2 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKootenai National ForestWATER GULCH
18 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKootenai National ForestPOWERLINE #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanders County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Trout Creek: 8 occurrences, 5 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper. 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 Lode Mining Co.Gold, SilverOccurrence
Ruth VGold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Ruth V. ClaimLead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceVein
Shoestring 1 & 2Gold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
White Penny LodeCopper, SilverProspect
Carmi LodeCopperOccurrenceMalachite
Four Up GroupCopperOccurrence
Four Up GroupCopperProspectVein
Four Up GroupCopperUnknown
Sid ClaimCopperProducerVein

Every working recorded in Sanders 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
Larchwood1.8 miles12
Tuscor6.7 miles12
Childs7.1 miles9
White Pine8.9 miles13
Talc11.8 miles13
Noxon14.7 miles12
Belknap15.7 miles13
Shannonville (historical)17.2 miles13

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 Trout CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962493The 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 792392. 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.