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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.

Condon within Missoula County

Population over time

2 figures

Condon 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.

YearPeople Change
2010343
2020285-58 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

111 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning19
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeRUMBLE CREEK
7 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeCONDON LOOP
7 September 2006Natural14 acresNorthwestern Land Officenot named
3 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead National ForestPECK ROAD
25 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeMM 41
19 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeCOMPOUND
19 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Missoula County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013HailCondon-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 2008HailCondon-A member of the public reported 1 inch hail size with hail accumulation to 4 inches deep at Holland Lake.
June 2006HailCondon-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCondon-no account filed
July 2002HailCondon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Missoula 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
Seeley Lake26.9 miles14
Schley34.5 miles10
Evaro39.7 miles10
Clearwater40.4 miles14
Grant Creek (historical)42.4 miles15
Twin Creeks42.4 miles16
McNamara42.6 miles16
Sunset42.7 miles19

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 CondonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5159321The 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.