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Wolf Creek, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Wolf Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59648. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Creek quadrangle. 25 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,563 feet above sea level.

Wolf Creek within Lewis and Clark County

On record in Wolf 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 5 records

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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Wolf Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,241 acres in total. 68 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
Natural68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2005Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeMM227 I-15
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named
19 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution9.4 acresCentral Land OfficeMM 228
18 September 1998Natural35 acresCentral Land OfficeWEST SHEEP
18 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresHelena - Lewis and Clark National Forestnot named
17 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Land OfficeMM 230

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Wolf Creek: 8 past producers, 7 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 3 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Barium-Barite, Silver, Arsenic. 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
Bissonette MineCopper, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, ArsenicPast ProducerBarite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Tennantite
Bissonette MineSilver, Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, ZincUnknown
Copper-Bearing Sandstone - UnnamedSilver, CopperOccurrence
HoneycombCopper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerGold
Hudson MineCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Prospected Mafic Dike-Name UnknownManganese, Strontium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Prospected Quartz Vein-Name UnknownGold, SilverOccurrence
Rosetta MineCopper, Barium-Barite, Gold, SilverUnknown
Wolf Creek Coal MineSubbituminous, BentonitePast ProducerBentonite
Wolf Creek DistrictCopper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Arsenic, AntimonyProducer1890

Every working recorded in Lewis and Clark County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf Creek in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 wildfire, 2 heavy rain. 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
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWolf Creek$10,000no account filed
June 2020Heavy RainWolf Creek-Estimates an additional 0.5 inches fell since 9 AM.
June 2020Heavy RainWolf Creek-Three-day rainfall report. Weather underground report.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWolf Creek-Estimated winds of at least 60 mph.
July 2013HailWolf Creek-Hail estimated at 1.00 inches was visible on the Sieben Flats webcam 8 mi SW of Wolf Creek, MT.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWolf Creek-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Wolf Creek 3NNE.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindWolf Creek-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Wolf Creek 10NW.
May 2008FloodWolf Creek-Water over several area roadways near creeks...including Wolf Creek area and Elk Creek area near Augusta.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWolf Creek-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 59 mph at Wolf Creek 8N (the Gary Cooper Bridge DOT site).
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWolf Creek-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Wolf Creek 9S (Sieben Flats DOT site).
May 2001HailWolf Creek-Wolf Creek 3 NE spotter.
July 2001HailWolf Creek-Actual event location Wolf Creek 8 NW.
September 2000WildfireWolf Creek-Wolf Creek fire, 389 acres burned, vehicle caused, continued from August.
August 2000WildfireWolf Creek-Wolf Creek fire, 389 acres burned, vehicle caused, continued past August 31.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWolf Creek-no account filed
July 2004HailWolf Creek-no account filed
August 2004HailWolf Creek-no account filed
August 2004HailWolf Creek-no account filed
June 1998HailWolf Creek-no account filed
September 1997HailWolf Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis and Clark 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
Dennison (historical)7.3 miles18
Craig7.3 miles13
Sieben8.0 miles20
Dearborn (historical)13.3 miles11
Strom15.1 miles20
Mike Horse (historical)15.5 miles11
Old Weiss and French Place15.7 miles16
Wilborn16.8 miles20

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 Wolf CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8029813The 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 801711. 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.