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Kila, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Kalispell Southwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59901. It lies near Hoffman Draw. The Survey maps it on the Kila quadrangle. 424 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,192 feet above sea level.

Kila within Flathead County

Population over time

2 figures

Kila grew from 392 to 424 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
2010392
2020424+32 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Kila between 1992 and 2020, burning about 478 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Debris and open burning58
Natural31
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSEELY LN
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeDANIELSON ROAD
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeKILA HILL
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBIRCH CREEK
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeLUNCH BOX SPRINGS
4 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeHOFFMAN DRAW
29 September 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorthwestern Land OfficeLAKE MONROE
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeHAYWIRE GULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kila in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 3 hail. 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 2020HailKila$10,000A photo was received via social media of a hailstone that appeared a little larger than a golf ball in Kila. Damage to cars, trailer and roof in Kila was also reported. Half dollar hail was reported in Kalispell and just south of Whitefish.
July 2013HailKila-A right-moving supercell formed 30 miles southwest of Marion and tracked northeast around 40 mph to just north of Kila. A trained spotter located 2 miles north of Kila measured penny sized hail.
August 2013HailKila-A trained spotter northwest of Kila reported estimated penny sized hail and strong winds estimated at 50 mph that blew off patio furniture from their deck.

Every storm recorded in Flathead 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
Batavia4.8 miles12
Ashley (historical)8.2 miles11
Kalispell9.2 miles11
Northridge Heights9.4 miles11
Mar-Le Villa9.7 miles11
Meadow Manor Incorporated9.9 miles11
Duncan (historical)10.1 miles11
Parkdale (historical)10.2 miles11

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 KilaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5959637The 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 785726. 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.