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Willow Creek, Montana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Three Forks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59760. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willow Creek quadrangle. 230 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,160 feet above sea level.

Willow Creek within Gallatin County

On record in Willow Creek

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Willow Creek grew from 209 to 230 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.

YearPeople Change
2000209
2010210+1 (+0%)
2020230+20 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Willow Creek between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,389 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoosevelt County201065
29 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeWILLOW CREEK
17 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresGallatin CountyMERIDIAN
17 August 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresGallatin CountyMADISON
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBroadwater CountyI-15 MILE MARKER 41
11 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
11 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
27 July 2000Natural1,380 acresCentral Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Willow Creek: 4 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, Ultra Pure, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica. 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
B & N Portable CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ingleside QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
Ingleside QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sappington Limestone QuarryLimestone, Ultra PurePast ProducerLimestone
Three Forks MillTalc-SoapstoneProducer
Unnamed MicaMicaUnknown

Every working 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
Three Forks6.7 miles20
Sappington6.8 miles20
Jefferson (historical)7.5 miles20
Lower Madison (historical)8.9 miles20
Gallatin (historical)10.5 miles21
Carpenter10.6 miles21
Logan12.2 miles21
Trident12.3 miles21

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 Willow CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968523The 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 778532. 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.