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Kalispell is a city in and the county seat
County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
 of Flathead County
Flathead County, Montana

Flathead County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of 2006 the population was 85,314. Its county seat is Kalispell, Montana. The numerical designation for Flathead County is 7....
, Montana
Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The population was 14,223 at the 2000 census. Kalispell is the largest city and commercial center of Northwest Montana
Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
. The name Kalispell is a Salish
Salishan languages

The Salishan languages are a group of languages of the Pacific Northwest . They are characterised by agglutinative and astonishing consonant clusters—for instance the Nux?lk language word meaning "he had had a bunchberry plant" has 13 consonants in a row with no vowels....
 word meaning "flat land above the lake." Kalispell is the nearest population center to Glacier National Park.

spell is located at (48.197801, -114.316068).

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, in 2000, the city had a total area of 5.5 square miles (14.1 kmē), all of it land.






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Kalispell is a city in and the county seat
County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
 of Flathead County
Flathead County, Montana

Flathead County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of 2006 the population was 85,314. Its county seat is Kalispell, Montana. The numerical designation for Flathead County is 7....
, Montana
Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The population was 14,223 at the 2000 census. Kalispell is the largest city and commercial center of Northwest Montana
Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
. The name Kalispell is a Salish
Salishan languages

The Salishan languages are a group of languages of the Pacific Northwest . They are characterised by agglutinative and astonishing consonant clusters—for instance the Nux?lk language word meaning "he had had a bunchberry plant" has 13 consonants in a row with no vowels....
 word meaning "flat land above the lake." Kalispell is the nearest population center to Glacier National Park.

Geography and climate

Kalispell is located at (48.197801, -114.316068).

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, in 2000, the city had a total area of 5.5 square miles (14.1 kmē), all of it land. Kalispell has been growing in area since at least 1990: in that year, its area was , while by December 31, 2008, its area had increased to approximately .

Kalispell is located 7 mi (11 km) north of Flathead Lake
Flathead Lake

Flathead Lake is the largest lake in the western part of the coterminous United States, surpassing Nevada/California's Lake Tahoe by .5 miles in surface area, 5 miles in length, and about 3.5 miles in width, Flathead Lake is also the largest lake in the state of Montana....
, which is the largest natural freshwater lake
Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
 in the continental United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 west of the Mississippi River
Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico....
.

Monthly Normal and Record High and Low Temperatures
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Rec High °F 53 64 73 84 94 96 104 105 99 86 69 57
Norm High °F 28.9 35.2 44.9 56 64.7 71.9 80.2 80.5 69 55.3 38.6 30.1
Norm Low °F 13.8 18.4 24.8 30.8 37.9 43.5 46.7 45.8 37.1 28.4 23.2 16.1
Rec Low °F -38 -36 -29 10 19 26 30 30 16 -3 -28 -35
Precip (in) 1.47 1.15 1.11 1.22 2.04 2.3 1.41 1.25 1.2 0.96 1.45 1.65
Source: USTravelWeather.com


Demographics

As of the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 14,223 people, 6,142 households, and 3,494 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 was 2,605.7 people per square mile (1,005.8/kmē). There were 6,532 housing units at an average density of 1,196.7/sq mi (461.9/kmē). The racial makeup of the city was 95.84% White, 0.28% African American, 1.22% Native American, 0.56% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.39% from other races
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, and 1.66% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.55% of the population. 21.7% were of German, 12.0% Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
, 11.3% Norwegian
Norwegian people

Norwegians See also History of Norway and Demography of Norway.There are about 4.4 million ethnic Norwegians living in Norway today. The Norwegians are a Scandinavian ethnic group, descendants of the Norsemen , and Celts....
, 10.7% English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 and 6.6% United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 or American ancestry according to Census 2000.

There were 6,142 households out of which 28.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.0% were married couples
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
 living together, 11.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.1% were non-families. 36.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.209 and the average family size was 2.92.

In the city the population was spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 87.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.1 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $28,567, and the median income for a family was $36,554. Males had a median income of $29,431 versus $20,122 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
 for the city was $16,224. About 10.1% of families and 15.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.1% of those under age 18 and 13.0% of those age 65 or over.

Transportation

Kalispell is located at the intersection of U.S. Routes 2
U.S. Route 2

U.S. Route 2 is an east-west U.S. Highway spanning 2,579 miles across the northern continental United States. U.S. 2 consists of two segments connected by roadways in southern Canada....
 and 93
U.S. Route 93

U.S. Route 93 is a major north-south United States highway in the Western United States. The southern terminus is at U.S. Route 60 in Wickenburg, Arizona....
. Commercial air service is offered at Glacier Park International Airport
Glacier Park International Airport

Glacier Park International Airport is a public airport serving Flathead County, Montana in the United States. It located six miles northeast of the central business district of Kalispell, Montana and also serves the towns of Evergreen, Montana, Columbia Falls, Montana, and Whitefish, Montana as well as Glacier National Park ....
, located approximately eight miles northeast of Kalispell off U.S. Route 2 between Kalispell and Columbia Falls.

Kalispell City Airport, located in the southern part of the city, offers general aviation service.

Amtrak
Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 to provide Inter-city rail train#Passenger trains service in the United States....
's Empire Builder
Empire Builder

The Empire Builder is a passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and The West ern United States. Before Amtrak, the Empire Builder was operated by the Great Northern Railway ....
 service between Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
 and either Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
 or Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....
 is available in Whitefish
Whitefish, Montana

Whitefish is a city in Flathead County, Montana, Montana, United States. The population was 5,032 at the 2000 United States Census. It is home to a ski resort called Whitefish Mountain Resort....
, approximately 15 miles north.

Eagle Transit, an agency of Flathead County, offers local transit service within and connecting Kalispell, Columbia Falls and Whitefish, as well as paratransit demand-responsive service. Currently, public transit service is only offered weekdays.

Notable natives and residents


  • Amanda Kimmel
    Amanda Kimmel

    Amanda Lee Kimmel is a beauty queen from Billings, Montana who has competed in the Miss USA and Miss Earth pageants. Kimmel was a runner-up contestant on both Survivor: China and Survivor: Micronesia, breaking several Survivor records in the process....
    , Miss Montana USA
    Miss Montana USA

    The Miss Montana USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Montana in the Miss USA pageant.Montana is one of the least successful states in Miss USA history, but there has been success in other pageants....
     2005, model, Survivor: China
    Survivor: China

    Survivor: China was the fifteenth season of the United States reality show Survivor . The premiere aired September 20, 2007. Host Jeff Probst claimed the show was the first full American TV series to be filmed entirely within the People's Republic of China....
     and Survivor: Micronesia
    Survivor: Micronesia

    Survivor: Micronesia - Fans vs. Favorites was the sixteenth season of the United States reality show Survivor . Pitting die-hard Survivor fans against some of the series' past contestants, this season was the show's third to include contestants from past seasons, after the all-returning contestant pool from Survivor: All-Stars...
     contestant.
  • Brad Bird
    Brad Bird

    Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States Film director. His best known works are Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar's The Incredibles and Ratatouille ....
    , Academy Award-winning director of animated films and television programs
  • Robert Bray
    Robert Bray

    Robert E. Bray was a film and television actor probably best remembered for his role as the forest ranger Corey Stuart in the long-running Columbia Broadcasting System series Lassie ....
    , film and television actor
  • William Cumming
    William Cumming

    William Cumming may refer to:*William Cumming , American lawyer, Continental Congressman for North Carolina*William Cumming , American soldier and planter from Augusta, Georgia...
    , 20th century artist and founder of the Northwest School
    Northwest School (art)

    The Northwest School was an art movement based in small-town Skagit County, Washington, and was at its peak in the 1930s and 1940s.The movement's early participants, and its defining artists, were the "big four": Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves and Mark Tobey....
    .
  • Rick Dennison
    Rick Dennison

    Rick Dennison is the former offensive coordinator for the NFL's Denver Broncos. He is the current Broncos' offensive line coach and previously served as the special teams coach, following an eight-year career as a Broncos linebacker ....
    , offensive coordinator
    Offensive coordinator

    An offensive coordinator typically refers to the coach on a American football team who is in charge of the offense . Generally, along with his defensive coordinator, he represents the second level of command structure after the head coach....
     of the Denver Broncos
    Denver Broncos

    The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. They are currently a member of the American Football Conference AFC West in the National Football League ....
    .
  • John Edward Erickson
    John Edward Erickson

    John Edward Erickson was an American politician of the Democratic Party from Montana.He was born in Wisconsin and later lived in Kansas. He graduated from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas in 1890; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1891 at Eureka, Kansas....
    , Governor of Montana.
  • Sierra Fellers
    Sierra Fellers

    Sierra Fellers is a professional skateboarder currently skating for Foundation Skateboards, Venture Trucks, C1RCA Footwear, FKD Bearings, Bones Wheels, Nixon Watches,spirit skateshop of kalispell, Montana, and CCS magazine....
    , professional skateboarder
  • Robin Lee Graham
    Robin Lee Graham

    Robin Lee Graham set out to sail circumnavigation alone as a teenager in the summer of 1965. National Geographic Magazine carried the story, and he co-wrote a book detailing his journey titled Dove....
    , Circumnavigated the world at age 16
  • Tanner Hall
    Tanner Hall

    Tanner Hall , of Kalispell, Montana is a freeskiing.In 2002 Hall co-founded the freeride ski company Armada with skier JP Auclair and photographer Chris O'Connell....
    , Professional Skier, Winter X-Games gold medalist in Slope-Style and Half-pipe
  • L. Ron Hubbard
    L. Ron Hubbard

    Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was an American science fiction writer who devised a self-help system called Dianetics, first published in 1950, which he developed over the next three decades into a set of doctrines and rituals he called Scientology....
    , author and founder of Scientology
    Scientology

    Scientology is a Scientology beliefs and practices created by American science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard in 1952 as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Dianetics....
    , spent his youth in Kalispell
  • Dorothy M. Johnson
    Dorothy M. Johnson

    Dorothy Marie Johnson was an United States author best known for her Western fiction....
    , noted author of Western fiction, worked for the newspaper here.
  • Dylan McFarland
    Dylan McFarland

    Dylan McFarland is a former American football offensive lineman for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League and the Hamburg Sea Devils in NFL Europa....
     - Buffalo Bills
    Buffalo Bills

    The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the metropolitan area of Buffalo, New York. They sold out every game in 2008....
     offensive lineman.
  • Joshua and Jacob Miller
    Nemesis (musicians)

    Nemesis is an coming out gay pop music pop duo consisting of the identical twin brothers Jacob and Joshua Miller. The pair can be differentiated by their hair colors; Jacob is blond, while Joshua's hair is brown hair....
    , identical twin brothers, members of pop duo Nemesis
  • Andrew J. Moonen
    Andrew J. Moonen

    Andrew J. Moonen is a former employee of Blackwater Security, accused by the Iraq government of murdering Raheem Khalif, a security guard of the Iraqi Vice-president, Adel Abdul Mahdi....
    , former employee of Blackwater USA
    Blackwater USA

    Xe , is a private military company founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark .In October 2007, Blackwater USA renamed itself Blackwater Worldwide, and was colloquially referred to simply as "Blackwater"....
     accused of murder in Iraq.
  • Mary Oppen
    Mary Oppen

    Mary Oppen , American poet, was also an activist, artist, photographer, and writer. Though of a lesser fame than her husband , she maintained a vital, animated role in the community of poets, painters, and activists who surrounded them....
    , activist, photographer, wife of George Oppen
    George Oppen

    George Oppen was an United States poetry poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist poets group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee....
    .
  • Shad Petosky
    Shad Petosky

    Shad Petosky is an United States comics author, designer, and television animator.Petosky was born in Kalispell, Montana. He was a programmer before meeting Zander Cannon and helping Cannon to co-publish The Replacement God. He and Cannon and Kevin Cannon formed the comic art studio Big Time Attic in the fall of 2004....
    , cartoonist and animator
  • Alexander King Sample
    Alexander King Sample

    Alexander King Sample is an United States Roman Catholic bishop. He is serving as the twelfth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette....
    , Roman Catholic Bishop of Marquette, Michigan.
  • Robert Burns Smith
    Robert Burns Smith

    Robert B. Smith was Governor of Montana from 1897 to 1901. He was a former delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Montana....
    , Governor of Montana
  • Thatcher Szalay
    Thatcher Szalay

    Thatcher Szalay is an American football player of Hungarian origin who has previously played for the NFL on the Baltimore Ravens and the Seattle Seahawks....
    , Seattle Seahawks
    Seattle Seahawks

    The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington, USA. They are currently members of the NFC West of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
     offensive lineman.
  • Michelle Williams
    Michelle Williams (actress)

    Michelle Ingrid Williams is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor. Williams broke into stardom on the teen series Dawson's Creek and later graduated to full-length features, most notably Brokeback Mountain, for which she earned an Oscar nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress....
    , actress
  • Lynx and Lamb Gaede, of white nationalist duo Prussian Blue
    Prussian Blue (duo)

    Prussian Blue is a controversial White nationalism folk music teen duo formed in early 2003 by Lynx Vaughan Gaede and Lamb Lennon Gaede, fraternal twin girls born on June 30, 1992 in Bakersfield, California....


Media

Print and Online


Television
  • KCFW (NBC), Channel 9
  • K18AJ (CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
    ), Channel 18
  • KMMF-LP
    KMMF

    KMMF is a full-service television station in Missoula, Montana, broadcasting locally in NTSC on Ultra high frequency channel 17 as an affiliate of Fox Broadcasting Company....
     (FOX
    Fox

    A fox is an animal belonging to any one of about 27 species of small to medium-sized Canidae, characterized by possessing a long, narrow snout, and a bushy tail, or brush....
    ), Channel 22
  • K26DD (TBN
    Trinity Broadcasting Network

    The Trinity Broadcasting Network is the United States' largest Religious broadcasting#Television Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, it also has studios in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma and Orlando, Florida....
    ), Channel 26
  • K29AA (PBS), Channel 29
  • KEXI-LP (MyTV
    MyTV

    MyTV may refer to:*MyNetworkTV*WZMY-TV, an affiliate of the above network whose branding as MyTV predated the network's announcement*MYTV International, has branded MYTV digital signage networks...
    , Channel 35
  • KCFW-DT (NBC), Channel 38
  • KTMF-LP (ABC), Channel 42


Radio (FM)
  • KLKM - 88.7 MHz
  • KUKL-FM - 89.9 MHz
  • KSPL - 90.9 MHz
  • KQRK
    KQRK

    KQRK is a commercial radio station in Ronan, Montana, broadcasting to the Kalispell, Montana-Flathead Valley, Montana, area. KQRK airs a mainstream rock music format....
     - 92.3 MHz
  • KHNK
    KHNK

    KHNK is a commercial radio station in Columbia Falls, Montana, broadcasting to the Kalispell, Montana-Flathead Valley, Montana, area. KHNK airs a country music format....
     - 95.9 MHz
  • KALS - 97.1 MHz
  • KBBZ
    KBBZ

    KBBZ is a commercial radio station in Kalispell, Montana, broadcasting to the Kalispell, Montana-Flathead Valley, Montana, area. KBBZ airs a classic rock music format....
     - 98.5 MHz
  • KKMT
    KKMT

    KKMT is a radio station city of license to serve Pablo, Montana. The station is owned by Anderson Radio Broadcasting, Inc. It airs a Hot Adult Contemporary format....
     - 99.7 MHz
  • KIBG
    KIBG

    KIBG is a radio station broadcasting a Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Wallace, Idaho, USA, the station serves the Kalispell-Flathead Valley area....
     - 100.7 MHz
  • KANB-LP
    KANB-LP

    KANB-LP is a radio station broadcasting a religious format. Licensed to Kalispell, Montana, USA, the station is currently owned by Flathead Adventist Radio, Inc....
     - 102.3 MHz
  • KRVO
    KRVO

    KRVO is a commercial radio station in Columbia Falls, Montana, broadcasting to the Kalispell, Montana-Flathead Valley, Montana area on 103.1 FM Broadcasting....
     - 103.1 MHz
  • KZMN
    KZMN

    KZMN is a radio station licensed to serve Kalispell, Montana. The station is owned by KOFI, Inc. It airs a Classic rock music format.The station was assigned the KZMN call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on May 15, 2003 in radio....
     - 103.9 MHz
  • KWOL-FM
    KWOL-FM

    KWOL-FM is a commercial radio station in Whitefish, Montana, broadcasting to the Kalispell, Montana-Flathead Valley, Montana, area. KWOL airs an oldies music format....
     - 105.1 MHz
  • KDBR
    KDBR

    KDBR is a radio station licensed to serve Kalispell, Montana. The station is owned by Bee Broadcasting, Inc. It airs a Country music format....
     - 106.3 MHz


Radio (AM)
  • KGEZ
    KGEZ

    KGEZ is a radio station licensed to serve Kalispell, Montana. The station is owned by Skyline Broadcasters, Inc. It airs a news radio/talk radio format....
     - 600 kHz
  • KERR
    Kerr

    Kerr may refer to:...
     - 750 kHz
  • KJJR
    KJJR

    KJJR is a radio station licensed to serve Whitefish, Montana. The station is owned by Bee Broadcasting, Inc. It airs a news radio/talk radio format....
     - 880 kHz
  • KOFI
    Kofi

    Kofi is a Twi and Akan name day name and a given name for a boy born on a Friday, originating in Ghana. It may refer to:* Kofi Abrefa Busia, a Prime Minister of Ghana...
     - 1180 kHz
  • KSAM - 1240 kHz


External links

  • info on the All Glacier National Park site.