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Fallon, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Terry South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59326. It lies near Plum Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Fallon quadrangle. 122 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,208 feet above sea level.

Fallon within Prairie County

On record in Fallon

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

Fallon fell from 164 to 122 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
2010164
2020122-42 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Fallon between 2006 and 2020, burning about 314 acres in total. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use84 acresMiles City Field OfficeMAIN
11 September 2006Natural25 acresEastern Land Officenot named
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresPrairie CountyHATCHETT - PRAIRIE
9 August 2010Natural7.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeTOWER
4 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresEastern Land OfficeMAIN
3 August 2018Natural2.0 acresEastern Land OfficeFALLON FLATS
3 August 2011Naturalunder an acreMiles City Field OfficeCOTTONWOOD
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresPrairie CountyBLUFFPORT - PRAIRIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fallon in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 24 hail, 11 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 2007HailFallon$1,000The hail destroyed a kitchen window.
June 2015HailFallon-Trained spotter reported nickel-sized hail and on-going heavy rain.
July 2013HailFallon-Public reported quarter-sized hail.
July 2013HailFallon-Public reported hail up to the size of half dollars.
July 2013HailFallon-Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of golf balls.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindFallon-NWS storm survey estimated wind gusts up to 95 mph from straight-line winds which damaged up-rooted large trees, removed roofing materials, and destroyed some small outbuildings.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindFallon-Prairie County Dispatch office reported an over-turned semi truck on I-94 near mile marker 191 at the Fallon exit.
July 2013HailFallon-Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail.
June 2012HailFallon-A trained spotter reported mainly dime sized hail, but some hail was slightly larger than quarter sized just west-northwest of Fallon in Prairie County. There was also 40 to 50 MPH winds and heavy rain reported at the same location.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFallon-Mesonet site W7PG-11 recorded the wind gust.
July 2007HailFallon-The hail was accompanied by 40 to 50 mph and heavy rainfall.
July 2007HailFallon-The hail ranged in size from pea to nickel.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindFallon-The wind gust was accompanied by sustained wind of 54 mph.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindFallon-8 foot tall antique metal windmill knocked over by the wind.
August 2008HailFallon-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindFallon-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFallon-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindFallon-no account filed
June 2006HailFallon-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFallon-no account filed
July 2001HailFallon-no account filed
July 2001HailFallon-no account filed
July 2001HailFallon-no account filed
July 2001HailFallon-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindFallon-no account filed
July 2000HailFallon-no account filed
July 2000HailFallon-no account filed
July 2000HailFallon-no account filed
July 2000HailFallon-no account filed
May 1999HailFallon-no account filed
August 1999HailFallon-no account filed
August 1999HailFallon-no account filed
June 1998HailFallon-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindFallon-no account filed
August 1995HailFallon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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
Bluffport2.9 miles9
Terry10.6 miles8
Mildred13.9 miles8
Calypso16.6 miles8
Blatchford19.5 miles8
Sutherland (historical)21.4 miles8
Saugus22.1 miles8
Zero22.7 miles8

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 FallonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955001The 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 771300. 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.