Railroad crossing 091416N on PETTY CREEK in Alberton, Montana

The federal record lists a public crossing on PETTY CREEK in Alberton, Montana. The reported railroad is BNSF Railway Company.

Overview

Crossing091416N
PETTY CREEK
Alberton, Missoula County, Montana
BNSF Railway Company
How crossing IDs work
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Road traffic
961 vehicles / day
Road count: counted 2021 · 5 years old. About traffic counts and years
Reported trains
23 / day
These reported movements are not arrival times.

Location

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Source latitude
46.9909491
Source longitude
-114.4468285

Traffic

Road traffic
961 vehicles / day
Road count year
2021
counted 2021 · 5 years old
Reported train total
23 / day
Daytime trains
12 / day
Nighttime trains
11 / day
Switching trains
0 / day
Passenger trains
0 / day
School bus route
No
School-bus passes
Not reported / school day
Maximum rail speed
45 mph
Road speed limit
35 mph

The daily train total combines reported daytime, nighttime and switching movements. These reported movements are not arrival times. How reported train totals work. A school bus that crosses and returns counts as two passes on a normal school day.

Equipment

Gate arms
2
Flashing-light pairs
6
Crossbuck assemblies
2
Stop signs
0

How warning equipment is recorded

Main tracks
1
Quiet-zone source value
No

All equipment counts are reported. Zero is shown only when the source reports zero.

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Incidents

No incident report was matched to this crossing in the available records from 2016 through July 2026. Earlier or unreported incidents may not be included.

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Projects

Project documents

No reviewed document names this crossing
The reviewed sources do not name this crossing. Other projects may exist.

Surroundings

The surrounding landscape

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Nearby land cover

The 2025 estimates cover roughly 10 hectares around each crossing.

Developed land accounts for about 53% of the surrounding area.

  • Developed land: 52.7%
  • Woodland: 0.9%
  • Wetlands: 12.7%
  • Open water: 28.2%
  • Other cover: 5.5%
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Population and climate nearby

Modeled population in this map cell
2 · WorldPop 2025
Regional surface elevation
1,556 m
Average annual air temperature
7 °C
Average annual rain & snow
630 mm/year
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Regional sample 3.3 km from the reported crossing location. Climate averages cover 1979–2020.

What these figures describe

Population in the map cell comes from a 2025 WorldPop model, grouped into a hexagon containing the reported crossing coordinate. It is not a count of people who use the crossing. Unavailable estimates remain unknown.

Regional values use the nearest sample at roughly 5 km scale. Elevation dates from 2011–2015. They do not describe exact conditions at the crossing.

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Nearby records

These records are within 5 km of the reported location. Distances are straight-line estimates.