census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
Montana
Montana ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, an ...
, United States.
Description
The community is located along U.S. Route 191 in northeastern Fergus County, northeast of Lewistown. Roy has a post office with the ZIP code 59471. As of the
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
of 2010, there were 108 people.
The post office opened in 1892. The Milwaukee Land Company platted the townsite in 1913.
Climate
Roy has a
semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of se ...
(
Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...
''BSk'') with cold winters except when moderated by chinook influences that will typically push maximum temperatures over on seventeen days during winter and twelve days each in November and March. Spring is mild and frequently thundery, whilst summer days are hot – sometimes very hot – but nights are usually pleasantly cool.
Precipitation is fairly scarce, mostly coming from thunderstorms during late spring and summer, whilst snowfall averages (the median is ) but significant falls occur on only a minority of winter days. However, during the cold winter of 1977–78, cover reached on February 19 and averaged for the whole month of February.
Demographics
Education
Roy Public Schools educates students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Roy High School's team name is the Pirates.
See also
*
List of census-designated places in Montana
This article lists census-designated places (CDPs) in the U.S. state of Montana. As of 2018, there were a total of 235 census-designated places in Montana.
Census-designated places
References
See also
*List of cities and towns in Montan ...