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Sedan, Montana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Belgrade census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59086. It stands on Fairy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sedan quadrangle. 101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,699 feet above sea level.

Sedan within Gallatin County

On record in Sedan

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Sedan grew from 99 to 101 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.

YearPeople Change
201099
2020101+2 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sedan between 1992 and 2018, burning under an acre in total. 2 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
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 August 1992Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National Forestnot named
11 August 2008Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestBATTLE RIDGE
12 January 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral Land Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedan in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023HailSedan-Several reports of hail ranging from dime size to golf ball. Hail accumulated on MT Highway 86, resulting in some impacts to drivers.
July 2023HailSedan-Spotter northwest of Wilsall reported golf ball size hail and estimated wind gusts of 70 mph.

Every storm recorded in Gallatin County

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
Penwells (historical)11.1 miles20
Springhill12.8 miles23
Gallop (historical)13.2 miles24
Thomasville (historical)13.5 miles23
Reese Creek (historical)14.0 miles23
Upper Bridger (historical)15.6 miles22
Walker (historical)16.3 miles23
Busch16.3 miles23

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 SedanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6123382The 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 790188. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.