Somers, Montana Somers, Montana Location of Somers, Montana Location of Somers, Montana Somers is an unincorporated improve and census-designated place (CDP) in Flathead County, Montana, United States.

In 1909, the Industrial Worker, a journal presented out of Seattle by the Industrial Workers of the World, described Somers thus: The principal trade at Somers is sawing barns ties for Jim Hill.

Jimmy owns everything around Somers including the water, docks, sawmills, county roads, and all the territory that the town is situated on.

Jimmy also owns the United States postoffice and nearly all the judges and lawyers in Flathead county.

The IWW at the time was in dispute with Jim Hill in connection with strike waves throughout the Flathead Valley, especially centered in Kalispell. Sawmill workers organized with the IWW hit at the Somers Lumber Company, with business management quickly hiring scab workforce and blacklisting union members as a result.

Tensions reached their peak in late July 1909, when the IWW warned unemployed workers to stay away from Somers to avoid the conditions there. Somers is positioned in south-central Flathead County at 48 4 47 N 114 13 40 W (48.079826, -114.227722), at the north end of Flathead Lake.

Route 93 passes through the community, dominant north 9 miles (14 km) to Kalispell and south 42 miles (68 km) to Polson at the other end of the lake.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the Somers CDP has a total region of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2), of which 2.9 square miles (7.6 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 1.86%, is water. In the CDP, the populace was spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median income for a homehold in the CDP was $30,625, and the median income for a family was $34,286.

About 7.9% of families and 7.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 9.0% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over.

"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001), Somers CDP, Montana".

Municipalities and communities of Flathead County, Montana, United States This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties

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