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Yaak, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59935. It stands on South Fork Yaak River. The Survey maps it on the Yaak quadrangle. 338 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,986 feet above sea level.

Yaak within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Yaak grew from 248 to 338 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
2010248
2020338+90 (+36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Yaak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 434 acres in total. 63 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
Natural63
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestFIX-IT
25 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreKootenai National ForestSOUTH FORK
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreKootenai National Forestnot named
15 September 2008Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestGRIZZLY TRAIL
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestGUS
12 September 2014Natural1.5 acresKootenai National ForestDUTCH
11 September 2001Smoking2.0 acresKootenai National ForestYODKIN
1 September 2002Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestSLIM PETE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Yaak: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Asbestos, Asbestos, Uranium. 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
Esther May MineAsbestos, UraniumOccurrenceAnthophyllite, Tremolite
Esther May AsbestosAsbestosOccurrence
Larue-CripeAsbestosProspect

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yaak in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2013FloodYaak-A forest service employee reported minor flooding on the Yaak River at the Whitetail campground.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindYaak-A severe thunderstorm blew down 30-40 pine trees over an 2-3 acre area near Yaak. The largest trees had a diameter of 18 inches.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindYaak-Wind blew many trees down causing power outages in Yaak.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Sylvanite11.9 miles8
Dodge Summit19.5 miles9
Stonehill (historical)22.5 miles9
Yakt24.2 miles9
Kootenai Falls26.9 miles14
Troy27.3 miles14
Ural (historical)28.6 miles9
Riverside (historical)28.8 miles11

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 YaakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4165217The 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 778715. 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.