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.
Population over time
3 figuresRollins 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 183 | |
| 2010 | 209 | +26 (+14%) |
| 2020 | 192 | -17 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Flathead Lake quadrangle1:125000
- 1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Rollins quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Polson quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Rollins quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
74 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | ZELEZNY BAY |
| 20 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | FORREY CR. |
| 20 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | BENCH MRK DR |
| 2 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | MCFARLANE |
| 2 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 2 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 2 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 19 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | BLACKTAIL HEIGHTS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2011Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Hail | Rollins | $1,000 | A 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollins | $500 | A trained spotter from Woods Bay reported power outages with at least one tree snapped in half. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Rollins | - | 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 2013 | Hail | Rollins | - | A trained spotter on the east side of Flathead Lake reported an estimated 1 hail with no damage to cherry trees. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Rollins | - | Ping pong ball sized hail was measured at Yellow Bay. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Rollins | - | The public reported 2 inch diameter hail that occurred for about three minutes at Yellow Bay. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Proctor | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Lindisfarne | 6.9 miles | 7 | |
| Snowberg Court | 8.9 miles | 9 | |
| Bear Dance | 9.0 miles | 8 | |
| Big Arm | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Elmo | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Kings Point | 9.8 miles | 7 |
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 Rollins | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q964191 | The 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.





