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Lakeside, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Lakeside-Somers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59922. It stands on Stoner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Somers quadrangle. 2,705 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,910 feet above sea level.

Lakeside within Flathead County

Population over time

3 figures

Lakeside grew from 1,679 to 2,705 between 2000 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
20001,679
20102,669+990 (+59%)
20202,705+36 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Lakeside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 479 acres in total. 26 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning42
Natural26
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2002Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestLOST CREEK
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeWILLIAMS PARK
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined246 acresFlathead National ForestBALDY
26 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSOUTH BLACKTAIL II
26 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFlathead National Forestnot named
24 September 1994Natural3.0 acresFlathead National Forestnot named
20 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeFORREY CR.
20 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBENCH MRK DR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeside in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLakeside$300,000Numerous trees and power poles were blown down along the northern shores of Flathead lake. The roof to Carpenter's Arena near Kalispell was blown off. Damage to two other roofs was observed. One small grain silo was blown over near Somers. The damage observed from the NWS storm survey crew was indicative of straight line wind damage. Based upon the damage observed, winds were estimated to be between 80 and 100 mph.
June 2012HailLakeside-Hail was estimated at 1 inch in diameter by the public, 1 mile south of Lakeside.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLakeside-The Alert weather station on Angel Point of Flathead lake reported a gust to 59 mph.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindLakeside-Thunderstorms over Flathead Lake earlier in the evening caused five to six foot waves to crash onto shore at the town of Lakeside. Several boats were snow and sea walls and docks were damaged. The winds were calm at the time when the waves were causing the damage.
August 2006HailLakeside-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLakeside-no account filed

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
Somers4.2 miles11
Forest Hill Village7.0 miles11
Holt7.5 miles12
Bigfork8.6 miles12
Demersville (historical)10.2 miles11
Swan River11.6 miles12
Swan River (historical)11.6 miles12
Mar-Le Villa11.8 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 LakesideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964914The 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 785927. 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.