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Pablo, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Flathead Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59864. The Survey maps it on the Ronan quadrangle. 2,138 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,091 feet above sea level.

Pablo within Lake County

Population over time

3 figures

Pablo grew from 1,814 to 2,138 between 2000 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
20001,814
20102,254+440 (+24%)
20202,138-116 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

122 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Pablo between 1994 and 2020, burning about 278 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning28
Recreation and ceremony28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Fireworks12
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlathead AgencyBURNBARREL
8 September 2014Debris and open burning1.2 acresFlathead AgencyMTN. VISTA
7 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead AgencyBAPTISTE RD
6 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlathead AgencyLIGHT RD
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlathead AgencyCOURVILLE
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlathead AgencyJOHN DEERE
4 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyROCK CREEK
30 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlathead AgencyBARTEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Pablo: 11 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
QuarryStoneUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pablo in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindPablo$30,000National Weather Service storm survey crew saw numerous trees and several power poles down along the storm's track. Two structures received roof damage. The damage observed was indicative of straight line winds. A flag pole was bent in half southwest of Polson. Based upon the damage observed, winds were estimated to be between 80 to 100 mph.
July 2007Tornado (EF0)Pablo$8,000The public reported a tornado 10 miles west northwest of Pablo and also a waterspout over Flathead Lake north of Polson. In addition, a sail boat (located on the Flathead County/Lake County line) was spun around at least once in a counterclockwise direction and then sank.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindPablo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Dunham0.8 miles8
Mountain View (historical)3.8 miles9
Ronan5.0 miles8
Turtle Lake5.3 miles9
Belle-Vue Court6.5 miles7
Kerr6.7 miles7
Polson6.9 miles7
Jette9.0 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 PabloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968511The 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 775026. 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.