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Walkerville, Montana

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Butte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59701. It lies near Big Butte. The Survey maps it on the Butte North quadrangle. 639 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,309 feet above sea level.

Walkerville within Silver Bow County

Population over time

2 figures

Walkerville fell from 675 to 639 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
2010675
2020639-36 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Walkerville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestELK FIRE
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestMOULTON RESEVOIR ROAD
5 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestHAIL COLUMBIA
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSTEEP MOUNTAIN
6 August 2000Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestMOLTEN RES
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestELK PARK
23 August 2007Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestMARY EMMEE
23 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestHAIL COLUMBIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Silver Bow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 330 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 330 workings within 5 miles of Walkerville: 181 past producers, 57 prospects, 44 occurrences, 25 unknowns. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Silver, Copper, Gold. 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
Ajax MineSilica, Copper, Gold, SilverUnknown
Alice MineSilver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Manganese, BerylliumPast Producer1960
Belmont MineCopper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, ArsenicPast Producer1957
Best Hope MineLead, Zinc, Manganese, Gold, SilverProducer
Black Rock MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, ManganeseProducerRhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Sphalerite
Bonanza LodeCopper, Gold, Cobalt, Zinc, SilverUnknown
Bullwhacker MineMolybdenum, CopperOccurrence
Butte DistrictLead, Zinc, Manganese, Silver, Copper, Gold, Tellurium, Sulfur, Cadmium, Selenium, Calcium, BismuthProducer1880
Butte, Veins (Anaconda)Copper, Silver, Gold, Bismuth, Cadmium, Manganese, Zinc, Lead, Selenium, TelluriumPast Producer1875, 1880, 2000
Carver TailingsCopper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, GoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Silver Bow County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walkerville in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2025Heavy RainWalkerville-A thunderstorm over Butte produced hail estimated close to one inch in diameter and caused flash flooding near Schley Avenue. Over an inch of rain fell in one hour, overwhelming local storm drains and leading to a flooded basement, an overflowing manhole, and significant water ponding on streets and in nearby parking lots.
August 2021Flash FloodWalkerville-Law enforcement reported heavy rainfall led to street flooding in the Uptown District of Butte, Montana. Further, road department officials reported several clogged storm drains resulted in areas of minor street flooding.

Every storm recorded in Silver Bow 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
North Walkerville (historical)0.1 miles23
Allendale (historical)0.1 miles23
Butchertown (historical)0.1 miles23
Centerville0.6 miles23
Stringtown (historical)0.7 miles23
Anselmo (historical)1.4 miles23
Meaderville1.8 miles23
Butte2.1 miles23

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 WalkervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966114The 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 792762. 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.