Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Opheim, MT

Opheim is an incorporated town in Valley County, in far northeastern Montana near the Canadian border.

The town was named for Alfred Sumner Opheim and his wife Helen, who served as Opheim's first postmasters.

Opheim had 75 residents at the 2020 census, continuing a long decline from a peak of 457 residents in the 1960 census.

The 2010 census counted 47 households in Opheim.

Opheim was founded before the Great Northern Railway arrived but benefited from having its own depot; the rail line between Scobey and Opheim was abandoned in the early 1990s.

The town was once home to Opheim Air Force Station, a U.S. Air Force general surveillance radar station whose closure in 1979 contributed significantly to the town's population decline.

Granrud's Lefse, a bakery producing the traditional Norwegian potato flatbread lefse, was started in a garage in Opheim in 1977 by Evan and Myrt Granrud before being sold in 2018 and moved to Scobey.

Opheim's strong Norwegian-American heritage is reflected in its high school mascot, the Vikings.

Opheim High School drew national media attention in 2008 when its graduating class consisted of a single student.

Opheim celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2011, marking a homesteading era when the town once had almost 500 residents and served all of north Valley County.