Woods Bay, Montana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Woods Bay-Rollins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59911. It stands on Hunger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bigfork quadrangle. 676 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,917 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresWoods Bay fell from 748 to 676 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 748 | |
| 2010 | 661 | -87 (-12%) |
| 2020 | 676 | +15 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:125000
- 1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
132 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Woods Bay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined | 51 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 17 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | CRANE CREEK |
| 7 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | SONGBIRD LANE |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | RIPPLING WATERS ROAD |
| 4 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 3 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | CHERRY TREE |
| 24 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | MILE MRK 29 HWY 35 |
| 22 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | ESTES #3 |
| 21 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | SWAN COVE DRIVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Woods Bay: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idlewise Court | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Ferndale | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Bear Dance | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Rollins | 10.2 miles | 8 | |
| Swan Lake | 12.0 miles | 10 | |
| Dayton | 15.3 miles | 9 | |
| Proctor | 15.5 miles | 9 | |
| Lindisfarne | 16.3 miles | 7 |
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 Woods Bay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q968473 | The 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 802241. 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.







