Flaxville, Montana
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Scobey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59222. The Survey maps it on the Flaxville quadrangle. 63 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,782 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFlaxville fell from 71 to 63 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 | 71 | |
| 2020 | 63 | -8 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Flaxville quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Scobey quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Flaxville in 2017, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Flaxville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Occurrence | Clay | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
36 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flaxville in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 21 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Lightning | Flaxville | $5,000 | A trained spotter reported a direct lightning strike on a new series model tractor. The lightning strike fried the electronics and smoke was seen rising from the tractor cab. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Flaxville | - | The public reported, via Facebook, hail up to the size of half dollars. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | A trained spotter reported at least 15 power line poles had snapped and fallen over. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Flaxville | - | Public reported, via Facebook, hail up to the size of quarters. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Flaxville | - | Public reported, via Facebook, a rainfall total of 2 inches from overnight in the town of Flaxville. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | Public reported a grain bin destroyed south of Flaxville on the R-Y Road. Time estimated from radar. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | Public reported, via Facebook, a 3-sided farm shed destroyed. Wind speed estimated. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Flaxville | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | Trained spotter on the east side of Flaxville estimated a 60 mph wind gust. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Flaxville | - | Public reported a small amount of hail up to the size of quarters. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Flaxville | - | Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of nickels. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Flaxville | - | Spotter reported mostly pea-sized hail with some penny-sized hail stones mixed in. Also 0.60 inches of rain in 5 minutes. |
| May 2010 | Heavy Rain | Flaxville | - | Spotter reported total rainfall of 1.8 inches. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Flaxville | - | Hail of golf-ball to hen egg size was reported. |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Flaxville | - | Spotter witnessed a rotating wall cloud that produced a funnel cloud. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Flaxville | - | The hail was mostly quarter size and stripped leaves from trees. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | Trees were downed in Flaxville by strong wind that accompanied a thunderstorm. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madoc | 6.0 miles | 5 | |
| Navajo | 6.0 miles | 5 | |
| Whitetail | 6.3 miles | 5 | |
| Scobey | 13.2 miles | 5 | |
| Julian (historical) | 13.7 miles | 5 | |
| Pleasant Prairie | 15.4 miles | 5 | |
| Kahle (historical) | 22.1 miles | 5 | |
| Four Buttes | 23.0 miles | 5 |
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 Flaxville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q966988 | 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 771463. 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.



