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Wisdom, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Big Hole Basin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59761. It stands on Francis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wisdom quadrangle. 104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,050 feet above sea level.

Wisdom within Beaverhead County

On record in Wisdom

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

2 figures

Wisdom grew from 98 to 104 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
201098
2020104+6 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wisdom between 1996 and 2019, burning about 44 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
14 September 2013Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPROPOSAL
22 August 2005Natural3.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPROPOSAL ROCK
14 August 1996Natural6.0 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestPROPOSAL ROCK
13 July 2001Naturalunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSTEEL CREEK
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresCentral Land OfficeDUMP FIRE
1 December 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestSTEELE FOX
24 October 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBULL CREEK

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wisdom: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper. 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
Clara MineSilver, GoldPast ProducerVein
Clara MineGold, SilverOccurrence
Diadem GroupGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast ProducerVein
Diadem Group MineGold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, CopperOccurrence
Placer Creek PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Beaverhead County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wisdom in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 hail, 3 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 18 injuries. 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 2000WildfireWisdom6 hurt, $10,000Mussigbrod Complex fire - only partly in Beaverhead County, 84939 acres burned, lightning caused, continued from August.
July 2000WildfireWisdom6 hurt, $10,000Mussingbrod Complex fire - only partly in Beaverhead County, 84939 acres burned, lightning caused, continued past July 31.
August 2000WildfireWisdom6 hurt, $10,000Mussigbrod Complex fire - only partly in Beaverhead County, 84939 acres burned, lightning caused, continued past August 31.
June 2020Heavy RainWisdom-Mesonet station Steele Creek raws slcm8.
August 2018Tornado (EF0)Wisdom-Retired geologist observed a tornado on his property about 1-mile ESE of Wisdom. 50-lb. deck table was blown about 10 feet, a small greenhouse was leveled, and portions of fences were damaged. His personal weather station recorded a 78-mph peak gust at 16:38 MST. In addition, he estimated the tornado moved eastward at about 25 mph for about 3/4 mile. Thus, it is estimated that the tornado occurred between 16:38 and 16:40 MST.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWisdom-Outflow winds produced a wind gust of 52KT (60MPH) as reported 5 miles E of Wisdom.
August 2009HailWisdom-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Wisdom.
July 2002HailWisdom-A severe thunderstorm produce 1.00 inch near Wisdom.
July 2002HailWisdom-A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail near Wisdom.
July 1996HailWisdom-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beaverhead 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
Moosehorn (historical)16.3 miles11
Jackson17.4 miles10
Gloss Place20.1 miles9
Elkhorn Hot Springs21.3 miles13
Maverick Mountain22.2 miles13
Coolidge (historical)23.7 miles13
Elkhorn23.7 miles13
Polaris24.5 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 WisdomAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960975The 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 793432. 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.