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Swan Lake, Montana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Woods Bay-Rollins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59911. It stands on Groom Creek. The Survey maps it on the Swan Lake quadrangle. 102 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,104 feet above sea level.

Swan Lake within Lake County

On record in Swan Lake

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

Swan Lake fell from 113 to 102 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
2010113
2020102-11 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Swan Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking4
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

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
9 September 1995Smokingunder an acreFlathead National ForestSIX MILE ()
8 September 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlathead National ForestDEER LICK
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFlathead National ForestBOND CREEK
6 September 2009Natural1.0 acresFlathead National ForestLOST
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeBUG
4 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthwestern Land OfficeSWAN RIVER
4 September 2010Naturalunder an acreLost Trail Wildlife RefugeSWAN RIVER
2 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFlathead National Forest6 MILE

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Swan Lake: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Copper, Silver. 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
Swan Lake Copper - Silver OccurrenceCopper, SilverOccurrenceMalachite
Unamed LocationCopper, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swan Lake in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSwan Lake$500,000Many trees were blown down with the loss of power and telephone.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindSwan Lake$50,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSwan Lake$8,000Sheriff reported 30 trees blown down over Highway 83 10 miles northwest of Condon.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSwan Lake$6,000The Lake County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down on Highway 35 near Blue Bay along Flathead Lake.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSwan Lake$5,000Public reported widespread tree damage near Lion Creek northeast of Condon. Many spruce trees 1.5 feet in diameter snapped.
August 2024HailSwan Lake-The public measured 1.5 inch hail near Ferndale east of Big Fork.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindSwan Lake-The highway department reported several trees blown down across highway MT-83 near mile marker 48.
October 2012Heavy RainSwan Lake-A spotter measured 0.34 inch rainfall in 1 hour.

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
Bear Dance9.8 miles8
Woods Bay12.0 miles12
Ferndale12.1 miles12
Idlewise Court13.5 miles12
Allard (historical)15.7 miles9
Finley Point17.6 miles9
Rollins18.8 miles8
Kings Point19.7 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 Swan LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6136615The 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 791786. 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.