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.
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.
- Sedan Schoollisted 1981 · 0.0 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSedan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 99 | |
| 2020 | 101 | +2 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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.
- 1891 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Bozeman quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000
- 2000 USGS Sedan quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | not named |
| 11 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | BATTLE RIDGE |
| 12 January 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Central Land Office | not named |
Storms near this place
2 since 2023Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Hail | Sedan | - | Several reports of hail ranging from dime size to golf ball. Hail accumulated on MT Highway 86, resulting in some impacts to drivers. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Sedan | - | Spotter northwest of Wilsall reported golf ball size hail and estimated wind gusts of 70 mph. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penwells (historical) | 11.1 miles | 20 | |
| Springhill | 12.8 miles | 23 | |
| Gallop (historical) | 13.2 miles | 24 | |
| Thomasville (historical) | 13.5 miles | 23 | |
| Reese Creek (historical) | 14.0 miles | 23 | |
| Upper Bridger (historical) | 15.6 miles | 22 | |
| Walker (historical) | 16.3 miles | 23 | |
| Busch | 16.3 miles | 23 |
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 Sedan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6123382 | 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 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.










