Turner, Montana
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Harlem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59542. The Survey maps it on the Turner quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,041 feet above sea level.
On record in Turner
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
- Anna Scherlie Homestead Shacklisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresTurner grew from 61 to 90 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 | 61 | |
| 2020 | 90 | +29 (+48%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1920 USGS Avery quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Havre quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Turner quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
20 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turner in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Turner | - | Video on social media showed hail size up to 1.75 inches. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turner | - | Trained spotter reported 3 to 4 foot chunks and larger tree branches were blown down due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Turner | - | Member of public reported quarter size hail and gusty winds. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turner | - | Aerial photo and damage indicate a macroburst went through this region. Damage path was over 5 miles long. Wind Speed estimated between 70 and 90 mph. New mobile home windows bowed in. Insulation pulled out under roof. 12 large T. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Turner | - | Public reported quarter-size hail 3-miles SSW of Turner. Semi and trailer also reported to have been blown over in the area. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Turner | - | Hail, measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized), was reported. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Turner | - | Hail, measuring 1.75 inches (golf ball sized), was reported. Damage to a garden was observed. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Turner | - | Hail, measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized), and wind gusts to around 50MPH, were reported. |
| July 2014 | Heavy Rain | Turner | - | Heavy rain, measuring 1.46 inches in about 30 minutes, and .50 inch hail were reported. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turner | - | High wind gusts, measuring 52KT (60MPH), were reported. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Turner | - | Golf ball sized hail, measuring 1.75 inches, was reported in Turner. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Turner | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at the Turner Border Station (Turner 11N). |
| June 2007 | Hail | Turner | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Turner 12S. The hail covered the ground to a depth of 1 inch and destroyed the winter wheat crop. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Turner | - | A tornado toched down briefly at Turner 12SW. No damage was reported. The storm also produced .75 inch diameter hail. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Turner | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Turner | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turner | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Turner | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turner | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turner | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turner Colony | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Wing (historical) | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Hogeland | 13.4 miles | 9 | |
| Silver Bow (historical) | 16.6 miles | 9 | |
| North Harlem Colony | 25.7 miles | 11 | |
| Savoy | 26.5 miles | 7 | |
| Coburg | 27.1 miles | 7 | |
| Dogtown (historical) | 28.3 miles | 7 |
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 Turner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2461288 | 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 777808. 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.
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.




