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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.

Woods Bay within Lake County

Population over time

3 figures

Woods 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.

YearPeople Change
2000748
2010661-87 (-12%)
2020676+15 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

132 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined51
Debris and open burning32
Recreation and ceremony17
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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 2016Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestCRANE CREEK
7 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSONGBIRD LANE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeRIPPLING WATERS ROAD
4 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
3 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead National ForestCHERRY TREE
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeMILE MRK 29 HWY 35
22 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead National ForestESTES #3
21 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSWAN COVE DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Idlewise Court1.7 miles12
Ferndale4.1 miles12
Bear Dance6.0 miles8
Rollins10.2 miles8
Swan Lake12.0 miles10
Dayton15.3 miles9
Proctor15.5 miles9
Lindisfarne16.3 miles7

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 BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968473The 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.