Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Somers, MT

Somers is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Flathead County, Montana, located at the north end of Flathead Lake.

The community was named for George O. Somers, a vice president of the Great Northern Railroad who oversaw development of the new lumber town.

In 1900, Great Northern Railway magnate James J. Hill contracted to build a sawmill at the north end of Flathead Lake, and a town grew up to house the mill workers.

The Somers Lumber Company mill sawed railroad ties for Hill's railroad, and according to the Industrial Workers of the World newspaper in 1909, Hill owned nearly everything in town, including the water, docks, sawmills, county roads, and the land the town sat on.

In 1909, sawmill workers organized with the Industrial Workers of the World struck the Somers Lumber Company, and management responded by hiring replacement labor and blacklisting union members.

The population of the CDP was 1,049 at the 2020 census, down slightly from 1,109 in 2010 but nearly double the 556 counted in 2000.

At the 2000 census, Somers had 233 households, with an average household size of 2.38 people.

The CDP covers about 3.0 square miles, bordered to the south by the Lakeside CDP, with the Mission Mountains to the east and the Salish Mountains to the west.

In 2023, a 106-acre site on the lakeshore was designated Somers Beach State Park, to be developed with day-use amenities and a hand launch area for boats.

Children in Somers attend Lakeside Elementary School and Somers Middle School in the Somers School District, which enrolled 568 students in 2021-22, and go on to Flathead High School in Kalispell for grades 9 through 12.