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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.

Sun Prairie within Cascade County

Population over time

2 figures

Sun 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,630
20201,615-15 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

8 since 2017

Regional 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
Fireworks4
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
8 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreCascade CountyLAUBACH FIRE
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
16 July 2020Smokingunder an acreCascade CountySLUICE BOX
16 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
1 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
29 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCascade CountyNEEL CREEK FIRE
24 June 2017Fireworksunder an acreCentral Land OfficeMANCHESTER
10 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCascade CountyPINEWOOD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade 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
Manchester1.1 miles15
Vaughn3.8 miles14
Emerson Junction6.0 miles16
Ulm7.5 miles16
Johnstown (historical)9.0 miles16
Flood (historical)9.5 miles14
Countryside Village9.8 miles16
Great Falls9.9 miles16

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 PrairieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964356The 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.