Coram is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Flathead County, Montana, United States. The population was 539 in 2010, up from 337 at the 2000 census. Coram lies 7 miles southwest of the western entrance of Glacier National Park. The community was named after William Coram, a lumberman. It began as a logging town on the South Fork of the Flathead River in 1905. Coram boomed between 1948 and 1953, during construction of the nearby Hungry Horse Dam.