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Coram, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59913. The Survey maps it on the Hungry Horse quadrangle. 572 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,186 feet above sea level.

Coram within Flathead County

Population over time

3 figures

Coram grew from 337 to 572 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
2000337
2010539+202 (+60%)
2020572+33 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Coram between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 12 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
Recreation and ceremony34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural17
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking6
Fireworks5
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlathead National ForestWATER TANK
8 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlathead National ForestTREE HOUSE
5 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlathead National ForestBED AND BREAKFAST
4 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead National ForestCORAM
3 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead National ForestHUNGRY HORSE
25 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead National Forest2861
20 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead National Forestnot named
18 September 1998Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestWAJAX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Coram: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
(Facility) Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. SmelterAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant1955
Crushing Plant No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coram in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
October 2011Heavy RainCoram-THe equipment at Emery Creek reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 1.00 inches.
June 2004HailCoram-no account filed

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
Martin City1.9 miles12
Hungry Horse2.4 miles12
Conkelley5.0 miles12
South Fork (historical)5.3 miles11
Wagsmith Villa (historical)5.3 miles11
West Glacier6.7 miles14
Columbia Falls7.8 miles11
Pine Park8.0 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 CoramAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957919The 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 770089. 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.