Sun Prairie, Montana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Great Falls North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59404. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. 1,615 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,340 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSun Prairie fell from 1,630 to 1,615 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 | 1,630 | |
| 2020 | 1,615 | -15 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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
- 1949 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Great Falls North quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sun Prairie between 2017 and 2020, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Cascade County | LAUBACH FIRE |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 16 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Cascade County | SLUICE BOX |
| 16 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 1 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 29 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cascade County | NEEL CREEK FIRE |
| 24 June 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Central Land Office | MANCHESTER |
| 10 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cascade County | PINEWOOD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Vaughn | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Emerson Junction | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Ulm | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Johnstown (historical) | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Flood (historical) | 9.5 miles | 14 | |
| Countryside Village | 9.8 miles | 16 | |
| Great Falls | 9.9 miles | 16 |
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 Sun Prairie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q964356 | 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 1867343. 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.






