Condon, Montana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Seeley Lake-Blackfoot Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59826. It stands on Glacier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Condon quadrangle. 285 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,711 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCondon fell from 343 to 285 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 343 | |
| 2020 | 285 | -58 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Condon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1976 USGS Choteau quadrangle1:250000
- 1988 USGS Swan Peak quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Condon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
111 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Condon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 49 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 49 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | RUMBLE CREEK |
| 7 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | CONDON LOOP |
| 7 September 2006 | Natural | 14 acres | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 3 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Flathead National Forest | PECK ROAD |
| 25 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | MM 41 |
| 19 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | COMPOUND |
| 19 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Condon in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 4 hail, 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 2013 | Hail | Condon | - | A right-moving supercell thunderstorm tracked across the Mission Mountains moving east around 43 mph. A member from the public 9 miles south of Condon reported golf ball size hail that tore branches and leaves off trees and covered the ground. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Condon | - | A member of the public reported 1 inch hail size with hail accumulation to 4 inches deep at Holland Lake. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Condon | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Condon | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Condon | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seeley Lake | 26.9 miles | 14 | |
| Schley | 34.5 miles | 10 | |
| Evaro | 39.7 miles | 10 | |
| Clearwater | 40.4 miles | 14 | |
| Grant Creek (historical) | 42.4 miles | 15 | |
| Twin Creeks | 42.4 miles | 16 | |
| McNamara | 42.6 miles | 16 | |
| Sunset | 42.7 miles | 19 |
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 Condon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5159321 | 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 781557. 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.







