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.
Population over time
2 figuresSomers 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,109 | |
| 2020 | 1,049 | -60 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1943 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:125000
- 1957 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Somers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Kalispell quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Somers quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Somers quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
144 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 57 |
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | FOREST HILL |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | EAST PATRICK CR |
| 7 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | WILLIAMS PARK |
| 5 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 19 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | not named |
| 18 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Flathead County | 120 INDUSTRIAL CT |
| 18 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | CRAMER |
| 16 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwestern Land Office | MM 106 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Somers | 1 hurt, $450,000 | Widespread 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 2008 | Hail | Somers | $2,000 | Trained spotter reported up to 1 inch hail with winds up to 45 mph and damage to a camper. |
| May 2013 | Lightning | Somers | $1,000 | Scattered power outages were reported from Kalispell to Somers due to lightning strikes. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Somers | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Hill Village | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Lakeside | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Holt | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Demersville (historical) | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Mar-Le Villa | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| Bigfork | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Creston | 8.8 miles | 12 | |
| Meadow Manor Incorporated | 9.3 miles | 11 |
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 Somers | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q961259 | 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 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.







