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Saint Marie, Montana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Glasgow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59230. The Survey maps it on the Chapman Coulee NE quadrangle. 489 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,753 feet above sea level.

Saint Marie within Valley County

Population over time

3 figures

Saint Marie grew from 183 to 489 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
2010264+81 (+44%)
2020489+225 (+85%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Saint Marie in 2019, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresValley CountyFDH-MTLG20-142

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

38 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saint Marie in 38 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2006LightningSaint Marie1 hurtA man was indirectly struck by lightning while repaving a runway. He was holding onto the chute of a cement truck when lightning struck a generator nearby, then jumped over to the truck. He fell to the ground and for 10 seconds lost speech and movement. He was taken to the hospital and released later the same morning.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie$25,000Public reported 7 power poles blown down along MT Highway 24.
July 2025HailSaint Marie-Public posted photos on social media, showing mainly quarter size hail, but also included larger hailstones, up to the size of baseballs.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-A wind gust of 63 mph was measured at the St. Marie MT-24 DOT site.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The Saint Marie Marco Mesonet Site (07MT) measured a 61 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The Saint Marie Marco Mesonet site (07MT) measured a 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The Saint Marie Marco Mesonet Site (07MT) measured a 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The mesonet site (07MT) at 1 NE Saint Marie measured a 61 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The St. Marie Marco mesonet site (07MT) measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The St. Marie mesonet site (07MT) recorded a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The Saint Marie mesonet site (07MT) measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 73 mph.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The Saint Marie mesonet site (07MT) measured a 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The Saint Marie MARCO mesonet site, 07MT, measured a 77 mph wind gust at 2:20 AM local time, then a 65 mph wind gust 10 minutes later.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-A stand-alone truck bed camper was blown over.
July 2020HailSaint Marie-Public reported quarter size hail.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-At the Saint Marie MARCO mesonet site (07MT), an 82 mph wind gust was recorded.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-At the Saint Marie MARCO site (07MT), a 62 mph wind gust was recorded.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The Saint Marie MARCO mesonet site (07MT) measured a 61 mph wind gust.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-A 75 mph wind gust was measured at the Saint Marie Mesonet MARCO site (07MT).
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-A 65 mph wind gust was recorded at the Saint Marie Mesonet MARCO site (07MT).
August 2017Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The Saint Marie MARCO site measured a 67 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Time is estimated by radar.
June 2016HailSaint Marie-Public reported golf ball sized hail.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-The mesonet site at Saint Marie measured a peak wind of 67 mph. These winds were a combination of thunderstorm wind gusts and post-cold frontal winds. The strong and severe winds continued for an hour and 5 minutes.
July 2013HailSaint Marie-Trained spotter reported hen egg sized hail - duration 7 minutes, and some crop damage.
May 2013HailSaint Marie-Public reported quarter-sized hail.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-Public estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph.
June 2012HailSaint Marie-Nickel to quarter sized hail along with brief heavy rain and wind gusts to 30 MPH were reported by the public near Saint Marie in Valley County.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-Public estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSaint Marie-Public reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
June 2011Flash FloodSaint Marie-Spotter reported flooding on Cherry Creek Road at 1225 MST, and flooding continued through the day.
June 2011Flash FloodSaint Marie-At 1530 MST, Geer Road, approximately 11 miles north of Nashua, was washed out and closed.
June 2011Flash FloodSaint Marie-At 1800 MST, Sargeant Creek, 11 miles north of Nashua was running out of its banks.
June 2005Flash FloodSaint Marie-Flooding reported on Gilbert Lane east of Highway 24
July 2012HailSaint Marie-no account filed
September 2007HailSaint Marie-no account filed
June 2005HailSaint Marie-no account filed
June 2005HailSaint Marie-no account filed
June 2005HailSaint Marie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
Rose Hill (historical)3.7 miles9
Midway (historical)11.2 miles7
Kaiver (historical)11.4 miles9
Riverside (historical)14.6 miles9
Glasgow15.2 miles10
Whately16.6 miles10
Tampico17.0 miles9
Baylor18.2 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 Saint MarieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q515836The 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 1677347. 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.