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Niarada, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It lies in ZIP code area 59845. The Survey maps it on the Niarada quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,881 feet above sea level.

Niarada within Flathead County

Population over time

2 figures

Niarada grew from 27 to 28 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
201027
202028+1 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Niarada between 1993 and 2020, burning about 7,836 acres in total. 33 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
Natural33
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlathead AgencyHUBBARD
9 August 2008Natural2.0 acresFlathead AgencySULLIVAN
9 August 2008Natural2,022 acresFlathead AgencyDEEP DRAW
9 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyMARY SPRINGS
5 August 2014Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyHOG HEAVEN 1
4 August 2014Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyEAGLE EYE
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyBIG DRAW
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyR.T.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Niarada: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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
Flathead Mines Inc.SilverPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Niarada in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 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 2021Thunderstorm WindNiarada$5,000Thunderstorm outflow winds caused a few downed trees and tree branches which resulted in several power outages around Flathead Lake northward to Whitefish. The main power outages were centered on Woods Bay, Echo Lake, and in the Whitefish area with around 1000 customers without power for a time.

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
Hog Heaven (historical)5.6 miles8
Pine Prairie15.8 miles9
Marion20.3 miles9
Kila22.5 miles10
Lakeside24.6 miles11
Yakt (historical)25.9 miles15
Batavia27.3 miles12
Somers27.4 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 NiaradaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955506The 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 774617. 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.