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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.

Turner within Blaine County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Turner 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.

YearPeople Change
201061
202090+29 (+48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025HailTurner-Video on social media showed hail size up to 1.75 inches.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindTurner-Trained spotter reported 3 to 4 foot chunks and larger tree branches were blown down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020HailTurner-Member of public reported quarter size hail and gusty winds.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindTurner-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 2018HailTurner-Public reported quarter-size hail 3-miles SSW of Turner. Semi and trailer also reported to have been blown over in the area.
August 2014HailTurner-Hail, measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized), was reported.
July 2014HailTurner-Hail, measuring 1.75 inches (golf ball sized), was reported. Damage to a garden was observed.
July 2014HailTurner-Hail, measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized), and wind gusts to around 50MPH, were reported.
July 2014Heavy RainTurner-Heavy rain, measuring 1.46 inches in about 30 minutes, and .50 inch hail were reported.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindTurner-High wind gusts, measuring 52KT (60MPH), were reported.
July 2012HailTurner-Golf ball sized hail, measuring 1.75 inches, was reported in Turner.
June 2007HailTurner-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch diameter hail at the Turner Border Station (Turner 11N).
June 2007HailTurner-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 2005Tornado (F0)Turner-A tornado toched down briefly at Turner 12SW. No damage was reported. The storm also produced .75 inch diameter hail.
June 2005HailTurner-no account filed
July 2004HailTurner-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindTurner-no account filed
July 2000HailTurner-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindTurner-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindTurner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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
Turner Colony6.1 miles7
Wing (historical)10.2 miles9
Hogeland13.4 miles9
Silver Bow (historical)16.6 miles9
North Harlem Colony25.7 miles11
Savoy26.5 miles7
Coburg27.1 miles7
Dogtown (historical)28.3 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 TurnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2461288The 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.