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Lolo, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Lolo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59847. It lies near Andrews Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Missoula quadrangle. 4,399 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,199 feet above sea level.

Lolo within Missoula County

On record in Lolo

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lolo grew from 3,892 to 4,399 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
20103,892
20204,399+507 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Lolo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 464 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined91
Debris and open burning50
Natural41
Recreation and ceremony12
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks5
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
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeC.C. TRAILHEAD
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeHAYES CREEK FIRE
5 September 2001Natural1.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeWARDEN
4 September 2010Naturalunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeROSSIGNOL
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissoula County200176
3 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouthwestern Land OfficeLOWER MORMON
28 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeBERYLN LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Missoula 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 Lolo: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Pumice, Mica, Gold. 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
Black Diamond Mica MineMicaProducer
Sweet Bye and Bye MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Lolo Quartz DepositSilicaPast ProducerQuartz
MaclaySilicaUnknown
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Missoula County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lolo in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLolo$5,000Multiple car crashes were reported on Interstate-90 near Missoula as a thunderstorm with strong winds and heavy rain moved through. A wind gust of 52 mph was recorded at the Missoula International Airport, with the main core of the storm passing to the east of the airport.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLolo$2,000The Missoula dispatch reported a lot of tree limbs down around town with numerous power lines down. A couple of lightning strikes started fires with one strike to a house in Missoula and a field in Florence. A private weather sensor located southeast of Lolo recorded a wind gust to 60 mph ahead of the main thunderstorm cells.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLolo$1,000NWS employee reported a power outage, and tree limbs 5 to 6 inches in diameter broke off. Estimated winds of 50 mph.
August 2017HailLolo-Local Firefighters on the Lolo Peak wildfire reported quarter sized hail with no damages.
May 2014FloodLolo-The USGS Bitterroot River gauge at Missoula reported a peak height of 11.11 feet (11 ft. is the minor flood stage) and peak discharge rate of 17,300 cubic feet per second at 8:30 pm MDT on May 25. A NWS employee reported field flooding between Lolo and Missoula.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindLolo-A NWS employee reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust just north of Lolo, Montana.
July 2011HailLolo-A weather service employee measured 1.00 hail at his house.
July 2010HailLolo-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in the Lolo Creek area.
August 2010Heavy RainLolo-A spotter reported 0.30 inches of rain in 15 minutes.
May 1998HailLolo-3/4 inch hail reported 2 miles south of Lolo.
July 1995HailLolo-Cars damaged.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLolo-no account filed
June 2004HailLolo-no account filed
September 2004Thunderstorm WindLolo-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLolo-no account filed
August 2002HailLolo-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLolo-no account filed
July 1998HailLolo-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLolo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Missoula 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
Cozy Court0.3 miles14
McClain3.6 miles13
Carlton5.7 miles13
Orchard Homes7.4 miles14
Hell Gate (historical)8.6 miles15
Missoula9.1 miles18
Travois Village9.4 miles15
East Missoula10.6 miles18

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 LoloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960712The 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 786464. 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.