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Elmo, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59915. The Survey maps it on the Elmo quadrangle. 244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,917 feet above sea level.

Elmo within Lake County

Population over time

3 figures

Elmo grew from 143 to 244 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
2000143
2010180+37 (+26%)
2020244+64 (+36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Elmo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 901 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 4 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
Natural24
Recreation and ceremony19
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Fireworks7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2013Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyMARY SPRING
4 September 2001Fireworks1.0 acresFlathead AgencyBIGARM
22 September 2005Debris and open burning80 acresFlathead AgencyWALKING
9 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlathead AgencyELMO
9 August 2011Natural1.0 acresFlathead AgencyEARLY DAWN
9 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyMOIESE VALLEY
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyJETTE 6
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyHOG HEAVEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Elmo: 5 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
Chief Cliff MineLead, SilverOccurrenceVein
Silverstone MineCopper, Lead, Zinc, SilverOccurrenceVein
Unnamed Building StoneStone, DimensionOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopper, SilverProspect
Unnamed ProspectsCopper, Gold, SilverProspect
Unnamed ProspectsLead, Copper, SilverProspect
Chief Cliff MineLead, SilverOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Silverstone MineSilver, LeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmo in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 1 storm surge/tide, 1 waterspout, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2022HailElmo-There was a report of 1.25 hail from a storm that traversed the southern portions of Flathead Lake. Two greenhouse businesses in Jette, MT reported nickel size hail, or 7/8. A greenhouse received significant damage.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindElmo-The public reported four trees blown down from thunderstorm winds at Lake Mary Ronan State Park.
September 2000Storm Surge/TideElmo-An arctic front from the north moved over Flathead Lake generating strong gusty winds to 50 mph. Winds over the lake generated waves from 6 to 10 feet high, which damaged docks and piers along the lake shore. Several boats also sank from high waves.
September 2000WaterspoutElmo-Weather spotters on and around Flathead Lake, reported multiple waterspouts on the lake and strong gusty winds.

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
Big Arm3.7 miles9
Snowberg Court3.7 miles9
Dayton4.5 miles9
Proctor4.9 miles9
Lindisfarne6.6 miles7
Sipes7.3 miles10
Meltons7.7 miles10
Lake Mary Ronan8.1 miles10

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 ElmoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964906The 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 771209. 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.