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Arlee, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59821. It stands on Agency Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arlee quadrangle. 720 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,091 feet above sea level.

Arlee within Lake County

Population over time

3 figures

Arlee grew from 602 to 720 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
2000602
2010636+34 (+6%)
2020720+84 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Arlee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,540 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 6 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
Natural45
Recreation and ceremony27
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use16
Fireworks13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
26 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use11 acresFlathead AgencyREHBIEN 2
23 September 2009Arson/incendiarism471 acresFlathead AgencySADDLE MTN 2
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyARLEE RAIL
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlathead AgencyWHITE COYOTE 1
2 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyCOUTURE LOOP
12 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyTRESTLE
1 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlathead AgencyCHARITY #2
9 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyCHARITY

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlee in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindArlee-A person from the public reported that there were dozens of trees down on forest service roads east and northeast of Arlee.
July 2011HailArlee-A trained spotter NNW of Arlee measured 0.88 inch hail.
August 2004HailArlee-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindArlee-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindArlee-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindArlee-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindArlee-no account filed
July 2002HailArlee-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindArlee-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindArlee-no account filed

Every storm 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
Ravalli9.4 miles6
Saint Ignatius10.9 miles7
Post Creek16.4 miles6
Moiese17.3 miles6
Allentown19.2 miles6
Charlo19.6 miles6
Kicking Horse20.6 miles6
Ronan25.3 miles8

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 ArleeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968428The 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 801998. 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.

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.