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Weeksville, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59859. It stands on Weeksville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weeksville quadrangle. 81 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,884 feet above sea level.

Weeksville within Sanders County

Population over time

2 figures

Weeksville fell from 83 to 81 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
201083
202081-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Weeksville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,298 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 3 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
Natural72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Debris and open burning26
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Recreation and ceremony16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeKOLLMEN
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
7 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeR.R. MM-11
30 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreLolo National ForestMRL-MM 17.1
30 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreLolo National ForestMRL-MM 16.9
30 September 1993Debris and open burning200 acresLolo National ForestWEEKSVILLE #2
3 September 2015Smokingunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeHWY 22 MM 74

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Blanchards Corner6.9 miles7
Plains7.3 miles8
Eddy7.8 miles10
Snider13.1 miles10
Donlan13.7 miles8
Paradise13.7 miles9
Ashleys Settlement (historical)13.9 miles10
Island City (historical)15.6 miles8

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 WeeksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5410718The 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 792921. 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.