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Olney, Montana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Whitefish census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59927. It stands on Dog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Olney quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,169 feet above sea level.

Olney within Flathead County

On record in Olney

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Olney fell from 191 to 186 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
2010191
2020186-5 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Olney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 3 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
Natural52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony27
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
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 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
8 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeLUPFER FIRE
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSTILLWATER RIVER #2
29 September 1996Debris and open burning92 acresNorthwestern Land OfficeMEADOW LAKE, INCL.
18 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
17 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olney in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2011HailOlney-A trained spotter estimated 1.50 inch hail.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindOlney-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
Lupfer5.7 miles11
Radnor6.1 miles12
Vista11.4 miles12
Round Prairie12.8 miles12
Ramsey (historical)15.0 miles12
Happy Haven15.8 miles12
Whitefish15.9 miles12
Rhodes19.4 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 OlneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6050205The 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 788442. 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.