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Batavia, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Kalispell Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59901. It stands on Boorman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blue Grass Ridge quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,136 feet above sea level.

Batavia within Flathead County

Population over time

2 figures

Batavia fell from 385 to 368 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
2010385
2020368-17 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Batavia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 421 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined80
Debris and open burning63
Natural19
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeDANIELSON ROAD
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBIRCH CREEK
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeLUNCH BOX SPRINGS
4 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeHOFFMAN DRAW
29 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeDERN DRAW
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeHAYWIRE GULCH
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresNorthwestern Land OfficeBIG HORN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Batavia: 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Clay, Limestone, General. 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
KalispellClayUnknown
Salish MountainsLimestone, GeneralUnknown
Unnamed Kaolinitic ClaySilicaOccurrence
Flathead County CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Truman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Batavia in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 funnel cloud. 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 2010Funnel CloudBatavia-A trained spotter in the West Valley area reported seeing a funnel cloud near Whitefish.

Every storm recorded in Flathead 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
Ashley (historical)4.3 miles11
Kila4.8 miles10
Northridge Heights4.9 miles11
Kalispell5.4 miles11
Parkdale (historical)5.9 miles11
Meadow Manor Incorporated6.1 miles11
Duncan (historical)6.2 miles11
Mar-Le Villa6.4 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 BataviaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5550398The 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 794249. 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.