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Ronan, 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. 1,955 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,048 feet above sea level.

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Ronan within Lake County

On record in Ronan

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Ronan grew from 1,871 to 1,955 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
20101,871
20201,955+84 (+4%)

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

130 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Ronan between 1993 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony53
Debris and open burning28
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Fireworks8
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Firearms and explosives use1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead AgencyBAPTISTE RD
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlathead AgencyJOHN DEERE
4 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFlathead AgencyROCK CREEK
4 September 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlathead AgencyGRACE
30 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlathead AgencyBARTEL
29 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyHAMMERDAM4
28 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyHAMMERD
24 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlathead AgencyCANAL RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Ronan: 8 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
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
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ronan in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
March 2003Thunderstorm WindRonan$20,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRonan$5,000Several live trees were uprooted as thunderstorm outflow winds moved from southwest to northeast across the Mission Valley. Power outages and one report of minor vehicle damage from a falling tree branch were reported.
October 2011Heavy RainRonan-Equipment at Ronan reported 0.89 inches of rainfall in 12 hours.
July 2008HailRonan-Spotter reported 1.50 inch hail 7 miles south of Ronan.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindRonan-Thunderstorm winds were reported to have blown down several trees and large limbs down onto power lines.
June 2006FloodRonan-no account filed
June 2006HailRonan-no account filed
June 2006HailRonan-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRonan-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRonan-no account filed
June 2003HailRonan-no account filed
June 1997Funnel CloudRonan-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
Kicking Horse4.9 miles6
Pablo5.0 miles8
Dunham5.8 miles8
Allentown6.1 miles6
Charlo7.3 miles6
Mountain View (historical)8.1 miles9
Round Butte8.5 miles8
Post Creek9.0 miles6

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 RonanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966977The 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 775919. 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.