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.
Population over time
2 figuresMarion 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 886 | |
| 2020 | 1,119 | +233 (+26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Marion quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Marion quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
182 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 61 |
| Natural | 52 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | BITTERROOT EAST |
| 7 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | NORTH BITTEROOT |
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | BEAR SPRINGS |
| 5 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 33 acres | Northwestern Land Office | ROGERS LAKE |
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | ROUND MOUNTAIN |
| 3 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 3 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | SW BITTEROOT #2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Hail | Marion | - | A spotter one mile southeast of Marion estimated hail 1 inch in diameter. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Marion | - | Hail covered the ground about 1 inch deep. The hail was estimated at 0.75 inches in diameter. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Marion | - | The public estimated 1.00 inch hail covering the ground at the McGregor lake campground. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Prairie | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Kila | 11.0 miles | 10 | |
| Batavia | 14.3 miles | 12 | |
| Rhodes | 15.6 miles | 11 | |
| Ashley (historical) | 18.5 miles | 11 | |
| Yakt (historical) | 19.0 miles | 15 | |
| Northridge Heights | 19.1 miles | 11 | |
| Kalispell | 19.6 miles | 11 |
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 Marion | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5999178 | The 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.





