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Ennis, Montana

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Madison Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59729. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ennis quadrangle. 917 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,941 feet above sea level.

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Ennis within Madison County

On record in Ennis

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Ennis grew from 838 to 917 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
2010838
2020917+79 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ennis between 1999 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution2.3 acresCentral Land Officenot named
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMadison CountyHEGES
15 September 2020Debris and open burning1.2 acresMadison CountyHWY 55
14 August 1999Natural12 acresBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestBOBCAT
11 August 2018Natural1.5 acresCentral Land Officenot named
4 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
22 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use12 acresCentral Land Officenot named
29 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBeaverhead-Deerlodge National ForestCOMPOUND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ennis: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Jumbo DepositIronPast Producer
Orofino DepositIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ennis in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flood, 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
June 2024HailEnnis-Trained spotter reports quarter sized hail near Ennis.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEnnis-Ennis raws enm8.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEnnis-Measured by enm8 raws station/ Time estimated by radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEnnis-Mesonet station ennm8 Ennis raws. 59 mph wind gust. Time of event is estimated.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEnnis-Mesonet station ENNM8 Ennis raws. Time estimated based on radar.
June 2020Heavy RainEnnis-Mesonet station Ennis raws ennm8.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEnnis-Mesonet station in Ennis recorded 63 mph peak gust from thunderstorm.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEnnis-Mesonet station in Ennis recorded 65-mph peak gust from thunderstorm.
July 2011FloodEnnis-Water rapidly increased on the Wisconsin and Indian Creeks affecting areas around Sheridan and Twin Bridges.
June 2011FloodEnnis-Parts of Highway 287 near Ennis closed due to flooding.
January 2011FloodEnnis-Highway 287 was closed to through traffic due to flooding of the roadway. Highway 287 was under one to two feet of water.
July 2009HailEnnis-A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Ennis 5SW.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindEnnis-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 67 mph at Ennis.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindEnnis-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Ennis 4SE.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindEnnis-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 67 mph at Ennis.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEnnis-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 85 mph at Ennis 1W. Many trees and power lines were reported downed in Ennis. A roof was also blown off a building in Ennis.
May 2002HailEnnis-A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail near Ennis.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindEnnis-A light airplane crashed just short of the airport at the time the wind was measured gusting to 68 mph.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindEnnis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Jeffers1.3 miles29
Watkins6.3 miles29
McAllister6.6 miles29
Varney8.2 miles20
Cameron10.4 miles21
Cowboys Heaven11.4 miles28
Virginia City12.1 miles21
Central City (historical)12.5 miles21

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 EnnisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964895The 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 783212. 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.