BlockSand Coulee, Montana
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Eden-Stockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59472. It lies near Mining Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Great Falls quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,471 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSand Coulee fell from 212 to 179 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 212 | |
| 2020 | 179 | -33 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Stockett quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Southeast Great Falls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Sand Coulee between 1995 and 2017, burning about 118 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge | BOOTLEGGER |
| 30 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | SAND COULEE |
| 23 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Central Land Office | SAND COULEE |
| 25 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | SAND COULEE |
| 25 April 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 66 acres | Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge | OUTLET |
| 23 April 1996 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge | 4A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sand Coulee: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Coulee It | Iron | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number Seven | 0.9 miles | 16 | |
| Tracy | 1.2 miles | 16 | |
| Centerville | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Big Stone Colony | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Stockett | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Gerber | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Fields | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Donovan Park (historical) | 5.4 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Sand Coulee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6119892 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 776169. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.