Prairie County
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county in Montana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Montana
- Founded
- February 5, 1915
- Named after
- Prairie landscape
- Seat
- Terry
- Largest town
- Terry
- Total
- 1,743 sq mi (4,510 km )
- Land
- 1,737 sq mi (4,500 km )
- Water
- 5.8 sq mi (15 km ) 0.3%
- Estimate 2025
- 1,112
- Density
- 0.6/sq mi (0.23/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- visitterrymt.com (Terry Chamber of Commerce)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- prairie
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Montana
- Contains
- Terry
- Capital
- Terry
- Population
- 1088
- Area
- 4513
- Shares border with
- Fallon County
- Official website
- www.prairie.mt.gov
- Image
- Typical.Snowday.Terry.JPG
- Households
- 502
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- Commons category
- Prairie County, Montana
- topic's main category
- Category:Prairie County, Montana
- inception
- 1915-05-02
- different from
- Prairie County
- water as percent of area
- 0.3
- native label
- Prairie County
- per capita income
- 28892
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Encyclopedic overview
Prairie County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,088, making it the fifth-least populous county in Montana. Its county seat is Terry. Prairie County was created by the Montana Legislature in 1915 out of parts of Custer, Dawson, and Fallon Counties. The name was selected in a contest and reflects the predominant landscape of the region.
The county was the site of the 1938 Custer Creek train wreck that killed 47 people and injured 75.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prairie County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.