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Prairie Elk, Montana

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the North McCone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59201. It lies near Williams Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Sadie Coulee quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Prairie Elk within McCone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sand Creek (historical)11.4 miles5
Weldon11.9 miles5
Hamblin (historical)13.1 miles5
Pearmond (historical)15.5 miles7
Prairie Elk Colony16.4 miles7
Vida19.9 miles5
Presserville (historical)20.1 miles5
Coal Creek (historical)20.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1716175. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.