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Happys Inn, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Libby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59923. It stands on Wabuno Creek. The Survey maps it on the Loon Lake quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,363 feet above sea level.

Happys Inn within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Happys Inn grew from 164 to 179 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
2020179+15 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Happys Inn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,155 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 3 were 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
Natural43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Recreation and ceremony26
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning6
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2

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 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeTALLULAH CREEK
8 September 1997Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeLOON
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeLOST LAKE
4 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeROGERS MTN
30 September 1996Debris and open burning600 acresNorthwestern Land OfficeROGERS MOUNTAIN
3 September 2001Smokingunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
19 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeNORTH MOSQUITO CREEK
18 September 1998Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeTULD CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Happys Inn: 3 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
PotterCopper, IronPast Producer
Unnamed Gold & SilverGold, SilverOccurrence
Unnamed Gold & SilverGold, SilverOccurrence
Kenelty Barite DepositBarium-BaritePast Producer1960, 1962
Kenelty MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unnamed BariteBarium-BariteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Happys Inn in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
March 2017FloodHappys Inn-The Fisher River gauge peaked at 7.8 feet for 8 hours.
October 2011Heavy RainHappys Inn-Rainfall of 0.71 inches was reported near the Fisher River.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Manicke (historical)8.8 miles15
Scotchville (historical)17.4 miles15
Jennings22.3 miles15
Ripley26.6 miles16
Pioneer Junction26.6 miles14
White Haven26.9 miles14
Warland (historical)29.8 miles9
Libby30.5 miles14

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 Happys InnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5892198The 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 784542. 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.