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Orchard Homes, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Lolo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59804. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Missoula quadrangle. 5,377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,153 feet above sea level.

Orchard Homes within Missoula County

On record in Orchard Homes

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Orchard Homes grew from 5,197 to 5,377 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
20105,197
20205,377+180 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

471 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 471 fires within 5 miles of Orchard Homes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,050 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined258
Debris and open burning134
Recreation and ceremony26
Natural21
Fireworks7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeHORSEBACK RIDGE
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeC.C. TRAILHEAD
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissoula Countynot named
8 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeCRAZY TRAIL FIRE
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwestern Land OfficeHAYES CREEK FIRE
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissoula Countynot named
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissoula County200430
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissoula Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Missoula County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Orchard Homes: 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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
L.S. Jensen & Sons Inc.StoneProducer
Pattee Canyon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stock PileLead, ZincUnknown
Unnamed PumicePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed KaolinClayOccurrence
Unnamed KaolinClayOccurrence
Dorite ClaimsBarium-BariteProducer
Missoula Barite DepositBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
Missoula Barite DepositBarium-BariteOccurrence
Montana Barite MillBarium-BariteProducer

Every working recorded in Missoula County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orchard Homes in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindOrchard Homes$3,000Power lines were reported down across Mullan Rd. Large tree branches were reported down at the Missoula Country Club golf course. Large trees were also reported down in the university district and along Daly Avenue.
May 2018FloodOrchard Homes-The Bitterroot River near Missoula reached flood stage and caused flooding in low-lying areas and contributed to high groundwater near the Linda Vista and lower Miller creek areas.

Every storm recorded in Missoula 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
Travois Village2.2 miles15
Hell Gate (historical)2.5 miles15
Missoula2.9 miles18
Westview Park3.4 miles15
East Missoula5.5 miles18
De Smet5.6 miles15
Grant Creek (historical)6.9 miles15
Grass Valley7.0 miles14

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 Orchard HomesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957841The 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 788477. 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.