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Wilsall, Montana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Shields Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59086. It stands on Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilsall quadrangle. 197 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,059 feet above sea level.

Wilsall within Park County

Population over time

3 figures

Wilsall fell from 237 to 197 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
2000237
2010178-59 (-25%)
2020197+19 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Wilsall in 2019, burning under an acre 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
10 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acrePark Countynot named
20 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePark Countynot named
14 October 2019Naturalunder an acrePark CountyHWY 89 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park 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 Wilsall: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Brieback Calcite DepositCalciumPast Producer
Miller Calcite DepositCalciumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilsall in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
July 2025HailWilsall-Report from coop residence.
March 2019FloodWilsall-Many roads were either washed out or had 10 foot ruts in them. A temporary bridge on Convict Grade Road was washed away.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindWilsall-Tree limbs were broken.
August 2011Tornado (EF0)Wilsall-A weak landspout was reported 3 miles northwest of Wilsall.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWilsall-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported 11 miles NNE of Clyde Park.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWilsall-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph 1 mile north of Wilsall.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWilsall-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph 8 miles east/northeast of Wilsall. This resulted in a wooden shed and a tree to be blown into a county road.
August 2006HailWilsall-Hail covered the ground with 40 mph wind gusts.
June 1999HailWilsall-Spotter report of dime size hail.
June 2021HailWilsall-no account filed
June 2013HailWilsall-no account filed
June 2010HailWilsall-no account filed
August 2010HailWilsall-no account filed
June 2005HailWilsall-no account filed
July 1998HailWilsall-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWilsall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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
Meyersburg (historical)1.2 miles16
Shields2.7 miles17
Clyde Park8.0 miles17
Chadborn14.1 miles18
Grannis18.5 miles18
Bensons Landing (historical)22.1 miles21
Hoppers22.9 miles20
Branding Iron Addition23.5 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 WilsallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966673The 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 778561. 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.