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Rollins, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Woods Bay-Rollins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59931. It stands on Big Lodge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rollins quadrangle. 192 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,943 feet above sea level.

Rollins within Lake County

Population over time

3 figures

Rollins grew from 183 to 192 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
2000183
2010209+26 (+14%)
2020192-17 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Rollins between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 27 started naturally. None 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
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony11
Debris and open burning10
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeZELEZNY BAY
20 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeFORREY CR.
20 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBENCH MRK DR
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeMCFARLANE
2 September 2004Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
2 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
2 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
19 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBLACKTAIL HEIGHTS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rollins in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 5 hail, 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
July 2022HailRollins$1,000A spotter in Bigfork, MT sent in a photo showing 1 1/2 inch hail. Near Lakeside on Flathead Lake a cherry orchard reported a total loss of their cherry and apple crop from 125 trees, and they had to replace all their screens on one side of the house and a larger cherry producer in Bigfork reported a total loss.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindRollins$500A trained spotter from Woods Bay reported power outages with at least one tree snapped in half.
July 2022HailRollins-This storm that moved generally from Lakeside northeast to the Flathead Valley just north of Echo Lake produced two reports of 1 inch hail. One of those reports was from Somers and the other along HWY-35 just north of Bigfork, MT.
July 2013HailRollins-A trained spotter on the east side of Flathead Lake reported an estimated 1 hail with no damage to cherry trees.
July 2011HailRollins-Ping pong ball sized hail was measured at Yellow Bay.
July 2011HailRollins-The public reported 2 inch diameter hail that occurred for about three minutes at Yellow Bay.

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
Dayton5.1 miles9
Proctor5.7 miles9
Lindisfarne6.9 miles7
Snowberg Court8.9 miles9
Bear Dance9.0 miles8
Big Arm9.0 miles9
Elmo9.6 miles9
Kings Point9.8 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 RollinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964191The 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 789750. 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.