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.
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
Yellowstone River Bridgelisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresFallon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 164 | |
| 2020 | 122 | -42 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Fallon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Terry quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 2006Regional 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 use | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 84 acres | Miles City Field Office | MAIN |
| 11 September 2006 | Natural | 25 acres | Eastern Land Office | not named |
| 9 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Prairie County | HATCHETT - PRAIRIE |
| 9 August 2010 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Miles City Field Office | TOWER |
| 4 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Eastern Land Office | MAIN |
| 3 August 2018 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Eastern Land Office | FALLON FLATS |
| 3 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Miles City Field Office | COTTONWOOD |
| 25 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Prairie County | BLUFFPORT - PRAIRIE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Hail | Fallon | $1,000 | The hail destroyed a kitchen window. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Fallon | - | Trained spotter reported nickel-sized hail and on-going heavy rain. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Fallon | - | Public reported quarter-sized hail. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Fallon | - | Public reported hail up to the size of half dollars. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Fallon | - | Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of golf balls. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | Prairie County Dispatch office reported an over-turned semi truck on I-94 near mile marker 191 at the Fallon exit. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Fallon | - | Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Fallon | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | Mesonet site W7PG-11 recorded the wind gust. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Fallon | - | The hail was accompanied by 40 to 50 mph and heavy rainfall. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Fallon | - | The hail ranged in size from pea to nickel. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | The wind gust was accompanied by sustained wind of 54 mph. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | 8 foot tall antique metal windmill knocked over by the wind. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fallon | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Fallon | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluffport | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Terry | 10.6 miles | 8 | |
| Mildred | 13.9 miles | 8 | |
| Calypso | 16.6 miles | 8 | |
| Blatchford | 19.5 miles | 8 | |
| Sutherland (historical) | 21.4 miles | 8 | |
| Saugus | 22.1 miles | 8 | |
| Zero | 22.7 miles | 8 |
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 Fallon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q955001 | The 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.




