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Opheim, Montana

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Opheim census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59250. The Survey maps it on the Opheim quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,264 feet above sea level.

Opheim within Valley County

Population over time

2 figures

Opheim fell from 85 to 75 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
201085
202075-10 (-12%)

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.

Storms near this place

60 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Opheim in 68 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 42 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 1999Tornado (F1)Opheim$250,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindOpheim$17,000Public reported a 60-foot radio tower bent in half and 4-inch diameter tree limbs broken. Wind gusts of 85 mph estimated from EF-scale toolkit.
August 2007Tornado (EF1)Opheim$10,000A fully loaded grain truck weighing 40,000 to 45,000 pounds was in the path of this tornado. A bolted down upper portion of the truck's grain bin, which weighed 400 pounds, was lifted straight into the air causing minimal damage to the rest of the truck bin. It then spun overhead and slammed into the ground twice at a distance of about 80 feet from the vehicle. A witness reported a rotating wall cloud and a rain wrapped tornado. A damage survey was conducted by the NWS and the tornado was rated in the low EF1 range.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindOpheim$3,000no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOpheim$2,000Two power poles were knocked down and visibility reduced to near zero by the strong winds. Hail was beginning to fall.
July 2024HailOpheim-A trained spotter reported hail the size of ping pong balls. Some broken windows were reported.
July 2024HailOpheim-Public reported hail up to the size of quarters.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindOpheim-A trained spotter reported that trees were stripped near 5 S Opheim. Time of the event was estimated from radar data.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOpheim-A trained spotter estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 70 mph, along with hail up to the size of dimes and heavy rain.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindOpheim-Public measured a 69 mph wind gust.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOpheim-Trained spotter 5S Opheim estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph.
July 2018HailOpheim-Trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
July 2018HailOpheim-Public reported quarter size hail.
June 2016HailOpheim-Nickel sized hail was reported at the Port of Opheim border crossing in northern Valley County.
September 2016Funnel CloudOpheim-Public reported, via social media, a cold air funnel amid low clouds and scattered rain showers in the area.
July 2015HailOpheim-Trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail with heavy rain sometime between 7:30 and 8:00 PM local time.
July 2014HailOpheim-Public reported quarter-sized hail.
August 2011HailOpheim-Spotter reported mostly dime-sized hail with a few quarter-sized stones.
July 2011HailOpheim-Mainly pea-sized stones fell with some nickel-sized stones and moderate rain.
August 2011HailOpheim-Hail to the size of quarters was reported by border patrol at the Port of Opheim.
August 2011HailOpheim-Hail stones up to hen egg-sized covering the ground as reported by border patrol at the Port of Opheim.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindOpheim-Observer also measured sustained winds between 40 and 60 mph.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOpheim-Spotter estimated wind gust at 60 mph.
August 2008HailOpheim-Pea to penny size hail fell along with an estimated half inch of rain.
July 2007HailOpheim-The hail ranged in size from quarter to golf ball, and was accompanied by wind estimated at 50 mph.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOpheim-The wind bent a flagpole.
June 2005Flash FloodOpheim-Roanwood Creek and the confluence of the west fork of the Poplar River had water running out of its banks and over Mason Road.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindOpheim-64 mph wind gust at Bluff Creek RAWS.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindOpheim-60 mph wind gust reported 5 miles south of Opheim.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindOpheim-Wind gust reported at the Bluff Creek RAWS site.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindOpheim-58 mph wind reported at Bluff Creek RAWS.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindOpheim-60 mph wind reported at Opheim.
July 1998HailOpheim-Large hail destroyed a wheat field.
August 2010HailOpheim-no account filed
August 2010HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2009HailOpheim-no account filed
August 2008HailOpheim-no account filed
August 2007HailOpheim-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOpheim-no account filed
July 2007HailOpheim-no account filed
August 2007HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2007HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOpheim-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOpheim-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOpheim-no account filed
June 2005HailOpheim-no account filed
June 2005HailOpheim-no account filed
August 2005HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2005HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2005HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2005HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2004HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2004HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2004HailOpheim-no account filed
June 2002HailOpheim-no account filed
August 2002HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2001HailOpheim-no account filed
July 2001Funnel CloudOpheim-no account filed
July 2001HailOpheim-no account filed
August 2000HailOpheim-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
Roanwood7.6 miles7
Glentana8.4 miles7
Baylor13.9 miles7
Kansas Flat (historical)13.9 miles8
Wild Rose (historical)15.3 miles7
Avondale (historical)17.7 miles7
Richland19.0 miles7
Midway (historical)21.1 miles7

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 OpheimAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q945206The 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 774973. 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.

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.