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Somers, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Lakeside-Somers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59932. It lies near Invitation Island. The Survey maps it on the Somers quadrangle. 1,049 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,019 feet above sea level.

Somers within Flathead County

Population over time

2 figures

Somers fell from 1,109 to 1,049 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
20101,109
20201,049-60 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Somers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined57
Debris and open burning41
Recreation and ceremony18
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks5
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeFOREST HILL
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeEAST PATRICK CR
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeWILLIAMS PARK
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwestern Land Officenot named
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlathead County120 INDUSTRIAL CT
18 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeCRAMER
16 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeMM 106

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Somers in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSomers1 hurt, $450,000Widespread high winds were reported as a line of thunderstorms, in the form of a squall line, moved north-northeastward across the region. While wind gusts of 50 to 60 miles per hour were common, a person from the public in Kila reported a measured peak wind gust of 78 miles per hour, and the ASOS at Glacier Park International Airport recorded a peak wind gust of 69 miles per hour. Numerous trees were either snapped in half or uprooted,which resulted in over 200 power outages and 37,000 customers without power. Several houses and vehicles were destroyed as trees fell onto them. Highway 2 and Montana Highway 83 were both covered by fallen trees for a time. A local electric coop remarked that this wind event may be the largest, most damaging outage event in our history.
July 2008HailSomers$2,000Trained spotter reported up to 1 inch hail with winds up to 45 mph and damage to a camper.
May 2013LightningSomers$1,000Scattered power outages were reported from Kalispell to Somers due to lightning strikes.
July 2016HailSomers-A hotel employee reported lots of hail ranging from dime size to quarter size. The storm lasted about 10 minutes and was accompanied by gusty winds.

Every storm recorded in Flathead 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
Forest Hill Village3.2 miles11
Lakeside4.2 miles11
Holt5.9 miles12
Demersville (historical)6.2 miles11
Mar-Le Villa7.9 miles11
Bigfork8.0 miles12
Creston8.8 miles12
Meadow Manor Incorporated9.3 miles11

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 SomersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961259The 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 790849. 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.