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West Yellowstone, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the West Yellowstone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59758. The Survey maps it on the West Yellowstone quadrangle. 1,272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,667 feet above sea level.

West Yellowstone within Gallatin County

On record in West Yellowstone

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

West Yellowstone grew from 1,271 to 1,272 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
20101,271
20201,272+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of West Yellowstone between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,184 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLITTLE
6 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBAKERS HOLE
4 September 1998Other causesunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestSTATION
25 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLAST
22 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestSEWAGE ROAD
2 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBIRD DOG
13 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestDUNRAVEN 2
11 September 2017Smokingunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestCHURCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of West Yellowstone: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Bakers Hole WellGeothermalProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Yellowstone in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 2 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 dust devil. 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
September 2003Dust DevilWest Yellowstone$3,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Yellowstone-The public reported about two dozen large trees downed by thunderstorm winds at the KOA near West Yellowstone. Some tents and awnings were destroyed. Wind speed and time were estimated.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Yellowstone-no account filed
September 2003WildfireWest Yellowstone-no account filed
August 2003WildfireWest Yellowstone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gallatin 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
Riverside1.7 miles13
Railroad Summer Home Area2.3 miles14
Corette2.6 miles14
Lakeshore Summer Home Area7.8 miles14
Lonesome Hurst Summer Home Area8.8 miles14
Romsett Summer Home Area9.2 miles14
Grayling11.0 miles12
Lakeview12.2 miles12

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 YellowstoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q956110The 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 793137. 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.