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Virginia City, Montana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Virginia City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59755. It stands on Daylight Creek. The Survey maps it on the Virginia City quadrangle. 219 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,761 feet above sea level.

Virginia City within Madison County

On record in Virginia City

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

Virginia City grew from 190 to 219 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
2010190
2020219+29 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Virginia City between 1992 and 2017, burning about 160 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
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
19 September 2001Other causesunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestELKHORN CITY
5 August 1996Natural3.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestHUNGRY HOLLOW
21 August 1992Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forestnot named
10 August 1994Natural1.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forestnot named
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
29 July 2003Natural1.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestAXOLOTL
19 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestALDER GULCH
4 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 84 workings within 5 miles of Virginia City: 49 past producers, 11 unknowns, 9 occurrences, 7 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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
Alder Gulch - Virginia CityGold, GarnetPast Producer1863, 1925
Alfreda MineManganese, Gold, SilverUnknown
Fortune MineGold, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer
GolcondaCopper, MolybdenumProspect
Greenback MineGold, Silver, ArsenicPast ProducerVein
Mapleton MineGold, Silver, StonePast Producer
Sampson MineGold, Lead, SilverUnknown
Valley View and Lucky Strike Lode ClaimsGold, Silver, LeadPast ProducerVein
Cabin and Cornucopia LodeSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, ZincOccurrenceVein
Eagle Black GroupGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Virginia City in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindVirginia City1 hurtA severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Virginia City 2W. The strong wind blew a sign (2 feet by 2 feet) through a windshield of a car, injuring the driver.
March 2017FloodVirginia City-Madison County DES reports water flowing over several roadways in Virginia City, including over Highway 287, due to rapid snowmelt.
June 2010HailVirginia City-A thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at Virginia City.
June 2010HailVirginia City-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Virginia City.
August 2007HailVirginia City-A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Virginia City 2W. The hail damaged 30 windows in Nevada City and caused minor injuries to passengers traveling in an open car train between Nevada City and Virginia City. Wind gusts were reported between 50 and 60 mph.
May 2002HailVirginia City-A severe thunderstorm produced 1.00 inch hail in Virginia City.
July 1998HailVirginia City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Central City (historical)0.8 miles21
Adobe (historical)2.6 miles21
Junction3.4 miles21
Summit5.2 miles20
Ruby7.8 miles15
Alder8.8 miles15
Laurin10.0 miles15
Varney10.7 miles20

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 Virginia CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955580The 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 778036. 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.

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.