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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.

Flaxville within Daniels County

Population over time

2 figures

Flaxville 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.

YearPeople Change
201071
202063-8 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

1 since 2017

Regional 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 use1

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
15 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daniels County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Daniels County

Storms near this place

36 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023LightningFlaxville$5,000A 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 2024HailFlaxville-The public reported, via Facebook, hail up to the size of half dollars.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-A trained spotter reported at least 15 power line poles had snapped and fallen over.
July 2022HailFlaxville-Public reported, via Facebook, hail up to the size of quarters.
June 2021Heavy RainFlaxville-Public reported, via Facebook, a rainfall total of 2 inches from overnight in the town of Flaxville.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-Public reported a grain bin destroyed south of Flaxville on the R-Y Road. Time estimated from radar.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-Public reported, via Facebook, a 3-sided farm shed destroyed. Wind speed estimated. Time estimated from radar.
July 2018HailFlaxville-Public reported quarter size hail.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-Trained spotter on the east side of Flaxville estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2018HailFlaxville-Public reported a small amount of hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2013HailFlaxville-Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of nickels.
July 2012HailFlaxville-Spotter reported mostly pea-sized hail with some penny-sized hail stones mixed in. Also 0.60 inches of rain in 5 minutes.
May 2010Heavy RainFlaxville-Spotter reported total rainfall of 1.8 inches.
July 2010HailFlaxville-Hail of golf-ball to hen egg size was reported.
July 2010Funnel CloudFlaxville-Spotter witnessed a rotating wall cloud that produced a funnel cloud.
July 2008HailFlaxville-The hail was mostly quarter size and stripped leaves from trees.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-Trees were downed in Flaxville by strong wind that accompanied a thunderstorm.
June 2008HailFlaxville-no account filed
July 2008HailFlaxville-no account filed
July 2008HailFlaxville-no account filed
July 2008HailFlaxville-no account filed
July 2008HailFlaxville-no account filed
July 2008HailFlaxville-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-no account filed
July 2008HailFlaxville-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-no account filed
July 2006HailFlaxville-no account filed
July 2006HailFlaxville-no account filed
July 2006HailFlaxville-no account filed
July 2006HailFlaxville-no account filed
June 2005HailFlaxville-no account filed
August 2000HailFlaxville-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFlaxville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daniels 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
Madoc6.0 miles5
Navajo6.0 miles5
Whitetail6.3 miles5
Scobey13.2 miles5
Julian (historical)13.7 miles5
Pleasant Prairie15.4 miles5
Kahle (historical)22.1 miles5
Four Buttes23.0 miles5

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 FlaxvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966988The 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.