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White Sulphur Springs, Montana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the White Sulphur Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59645. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the White Sulphur Springs quadrangle. 955 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,043 feet above sea level.

White Sulphur Springs within Meagher County

On record in White Sulphur Springs

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

White Sulphur Springs grew from 939 to 955 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
2010939
2020955+16 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of White Sulphur Springs between 2008 and 2019, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
9 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
18 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
11 August 2008Natural30 acresCentral Land Officenot named
26 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMeagher CountyMIKSEL
25 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMeagher CountyTOWNSEND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meagher County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of White Sulphur Springs: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Gold, Geothermal, Silver. 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
Camp Robber MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Unname LimestoneLimestone, GeneralUnknown
White Sulphur SpringsGeothermalProducer
Willow Creek DepositSilver, Titanium, Manganese, Iron, GoldPast Producer1915, 1920
Honeysett, Bluestreak & Triangle ClGoldUnknown
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Meagher 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
Langford City (historical)6.9 miles13
Calkins (historical)7.4 miles16
Springdale Colony8.5 miles13
Moss Agate13.2 miles18
Robinson13.4 miles19
Buckingham14.2 miles14
Castle Town14.3 miles19
Loweth16.1 miles19

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 White Sulphur SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957455The 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 793216. 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.