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Charlo, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59824. The Survey maps it on the Charlo quadrangle. 385 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,936 feet above sea level.

Charlo within Lake County

Population over time

3 figures

Charlo fell from 439 to 385 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
2000439
2010379-60 (-14%)
2020385+6 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Charlo between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7,133 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
2 September 1998Arson/incendiarism7,038 acresLolo National ForestBOYER
18 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresFlathead AgencyDUBLIN
16 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyROCKY BUTTE
12 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlathead AgencyOLSON
1 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlathead AgencyLOZEAU FORD
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake CountyNARROWS ISLAND
8 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestBELL CROSSING
8 August 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyRIVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Charlo: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
Unnamed BariteBarium-BariteOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charlo in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 5 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010HailCharlo$6,000A trained spotter relayed that their neighbor received golf ball sized hail that left dents in their car and caused damage to their corn crop.
July 2008HailCharlo$5,000Car dealership 5 miles south of Ronan reported 0.88 inch hail and damage to vehicles in the car lot.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCharlo$2,000A 25 foot power pole was snapped by the wind in Charlo, MT. The wind was strong enough to make it difficult for resident to open his front door.
June 2016Heavy RainCharlo$1,000A resident in Charlo, MT reported 0.80 inches of rain in 10 min with minor street flooding.
July 2022HailCharlo-One inch hail was reported in Charlo, MT.
June 2006HailCharlo-no account filed
June 2002HailCharlo-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
Allentown4.0 miles6
Post Creek4.8 miles6
Kicking Horse5.4 miles6
Moiese6.8 miles6
Ronan7.3 miles8
Round Butte7.9 miles8
Saint Ignatius9.2 miles7
Ravalli11.1 miles6

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 CharloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961050The 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 769768. 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.