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Marion, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Kalispell Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59925. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle. 1,119 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,944 feet above sea level.

Marion within Flathead County

Population over time

2 figures

Marion grew from 886 to 1,119 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
2010886
20201,119+233 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Marion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 52 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Natural52
Debris and open burning28
Recreation and ceremony20
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBITTERROOT EAST
7 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeNORTH BITTEROOT
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBEAR SPRINGS
5 September 2009Recreation and ceremony33 acresNorthwestern Land OfficeROGERS LAKE
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeROUND MOUNTAIN
3 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
3 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSW BITTEROOT #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2012HailMarion-A spotter one mile southeast of Marion estimated hail 1 inch in diameter.
June 2012HailMarion-Hail covered the ground about 1 inch deep. The hail was estimated at 0.75 inches in diameter.
July 2011HailMarion-The public estimated 1.00 inch hail covering the ground at the McGregor lake campground.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMarion-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMarion-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
Pine Prairie5.7 miles9
Kila11.0 miles10
Batavia14.3 miles12
Rhodes15.6 miles11
Ashley (historical)18.5 miles11
Yakt (historical)19.0 miles15
Northridge Heights19.1 miles11
Kalispell19.6 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 MarionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5999178The 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 786848. 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.