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.
Population over time
3 figuresCharlo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 439 | |
| 2010 | 379 | -60 (-14%) |
| 2020 | 385 | +6 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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
- 1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Charlo quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Charlo quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
37 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 7,038 acres | Lolo National Forest | BOYER |
| 18 September 2001 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8.0 acres | Flathead Agency | DUBLIN |
| 16 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | ROCKY BUTTE |
| 12 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Flathead Agency | OLSON |
| 1 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Flathead Agency | LOZEAU FORD |
| 9 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake County | NARROWS ISLAND |
| 8 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | BELL CROSSING |
| 8 August 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead Agency | RIVER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Barite | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
7 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Hail | Charlo | $6,000 | A 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 2008 | Hail | Charlo | $5,000 | Car dealership 5 miles south of Ronan reported 0.88 inch hail and damage to vehicles in the car lot. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlo | $2,000 | A 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 2016 | Heavy Rain | Charlo | $1,000 | A resident in Charlo, MT reported 0.80 inches of rain in 10 min with minor street flooding. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Charlo | - | One inch hail was reported in Charlo, MT. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Charlo | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Charlo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allentown | 4.0 miles | 6 | |
| Post Creek | 4.8 miles | 6 | |
| Kicking Horse | 5.4 miles | 6 | |
| Moiese | 6.8 miles | 6 | |
| Ronan | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Round Butte | 7.9 miles | 8 | |
| Saint Ignatius | 9.2 miles | 7 | |
| Ravalli | 11.1 miles | 6 |
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 Charlo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q961050 | 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 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.



