West Havre, Montana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Havre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59501. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Havre quadrangle. 290 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,612 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresWest Havre grew from 284 to 290 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 284 | |
| 2010 | 316 | +32 (+11%) |
| 2020 | 290 | -26 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1904 USGS Havre quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1912 USGS Thibedeau Lake quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Havre quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Havre quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of West Havre between 2011 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Hill County | FDH-MTLG12-108 |
| 19 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Hill County | FDH-MTLG12-69 |
| 18 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Benton Lake Wetland Management District | SANDS WPA |
| 2 February 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hill County | FDH-MTLG12-49 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Havre: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havre Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Junction | 1.6 miles | 11 | |
| Havre | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Herron | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Beaver Creek | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Cypress (historical) | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Saddle Butte | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Burnham | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| Oscar (historical) | 10.6 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 West Havre | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q968404 | 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 1853192. 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.






