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.
Population over time
3 figuresArlee 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 602 | |
| 2010 | 636 | +34 (+6%) |
| 2020 | 720 | +84 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Arlee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Arlee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
150 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 45 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Fireworks | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 11 acres | Flathead Agency | REHBIEN 2 |
| 23 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 471 acres | Flathead Agency | SADDLE MTN 2 |
| 21 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | ARLEE RAIL |
| 21 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Flathead Agency | WHITE COYOTE 1 |
| 2 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | COUTURE LOOP |
| 12 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | TRESTLE |
| 1 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Flathead Agency | CHARITY #2 |
| 9 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Flathead Agency | CHARITY |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlee | - | A person from the public reported that there were dozens of trees down on forest service roads east and northeast of Arlee. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Arlee | - | A trained spotter NNW of Arlee measured 0.88 inch hail. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Arlee | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlee | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlee | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlee | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlee | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Arlee | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlee | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlee | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravalli | 9.4 miles | 6 | |
| Saint Ignatius | 10.9 miles | 7 | |
| Post Creek | 16.4 miles | 6 | |
| Moiese | 17.3 miles | 6 | |
| Allentown | 19.2 miles | 6 | |
| Charlo | 19.6 miles | 6 | |
| Kicking Horse | 20.6 miles | 6 | |
| Ronan | 25.3 miles | 8 |
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 Arlee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q968428 | The 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.



