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Lavina, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Lavina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59046. It stands on Big Coulee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lavina quadrangle. 136 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,448 feet above sea level.

Lavina within Golden Valley County

On record in Lavina

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lavina fell from 187 to 136 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
2010187
2020136-51 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lavina between 2015 and 2020, burning about 550 acres in total. 1 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 use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
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
28 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use200 acresSouthern Land OfficeWOMAN'S POCKET
17 August 2018Natural1.0 acresSouthern Land OfficeBENCH
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresGolden Valley CountyLEFELT HANSON
25 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresGolden Valley CountyFDH-MTLG53-374
25 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresGolden Valley CountyFDH-MTLG53-373
15 July 2020Smoking175 acresGolden Valley CountyCHAIN
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresBillings Field OfficeEGGE RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Golden Valley County

Storms near this place

38 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lavina in 38 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 33 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flash 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
May 2005Funnel CloudLavina-Strongly rotating wall cloud/mesocyclone noted by two observers near the Golden Valley/Musselshell County line 15 miles north of Lavina. The wall cloud extended as much as halfway down to the ground, but no tornado was reported.
August 1999Funnel CloudLavina-Funnel clouds were reported near Lavina.
August 1999HailLavina-Baseball size hail reported.
August 1999HailLavina-Golf ball size hail reported.
August 1999HailLavina-Quarter size hail reported.
June 1999HailLavina-Spotter report of dime size hail.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLavina-A spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust.
June 1995HailLavina-Two inch hail broke windows on a house and truck.
June 1995HailLavina-Two inch hail broke windows on a house and truck.
May 2023HailLavina-no account filed
July 2021HailLavina-no account filed
May 2018HailLavina-no account filed
June 2013HailLavina-no account filed
June 2007HailLavina-no account filed
June 2007HailLavina-no account filed
June 2007HailLavina-no account filed
June 2007HailLavina-no account filed
June 2006HailLavina-no account filed
June 2006HailLavina-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLavina-no account filed
August 2003HailLavina-no account filed
May 2002HailLavina-no account filed
June 2001HailLavina-no account filed
June 2001HailLavina-no account filed
June 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
July 2001HailLavina-no account filed
May 2000HailLavina-no account filed
May 2000HailLavina-no account filed
July 2000HailLavina-no account filed
August 1999Flash FloodLavina-no account filed
May 1996HailLavina-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Golden Valley 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
Belmont5.1 miles7
Cushman5.6 miles11
Slayton Junction (historical)6.6 miles11
Emory (historical)16.5 miles6
Ryegate17.0 miles11
Golden Valley Colony18.0 miles11
Franklin18.3 miles11
Seventynine (historical)21.2 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 LavinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q427024The 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 773260. 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.