1browningandcutbankarea.gifTRAVEL_MT2004-12-22T11:43:04322YVISITOR INFORMATIONhttp://www.centralmontana.com10003320<DIV class="cityaspfont"><ul class= "fotocolumn"><li class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/Sunburst_welcome.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=117 HEIGHT=187 ALIGN=BASELINE><p class="fotocap">Welcome!</p><p><p class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: Donnie Sexton</p></li><li class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/Sunburst_Grain.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE><p class="fotocap">Local Grain Elevator</p><p class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: MTOT</p></li></ul> <P>Sunburst is twenty-seven miles north of <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=304">Shelby</a> near Canada. The name was suggested by William George Davis, who noted that the sun, as it rose, burst over the Sweet Grass Hills and shone down in the valley where the little town was begun. It became a boom town in 1922 when oil was discovered in the rich Kevin-Sunburst oilfields. (from Cheney's <I>Names on the Face of Montana</I>, Mountain Press Publishing Company)</P><map name="nearbycities"><area shape="rect" alt="Sweetgrass, Montana" coords="109,5,194,19" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=324"><area shape="rect" alt="Sunburst, Montana" coords="188,22,231,33" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=322"><area shape="rect" alt="Babb, Montana" coords="5,29,31,42" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=13"><area shape="rect" alt="Kevin, Montana" coords="159,44,190,57" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=187"><area shape="rect" alt="Oilmont, Montana" coords="203,55,240,71" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=242"><area shape="rect" alt="Browning, Montana" coords="54,74,131,98" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=45"><area shape="rect" alt="Ethridge, Montana" coords="144,83,180,105" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=108"><area shape="rect" alt="Santa Rita, Montana" coords="150,61,198,79" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=299"><area shape="polygon" alt="Cut Bank, Montana" coords="103,37,103,72,135,75,138,85,149,80,145,73,140,37" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=83"><area shape="polygon" alt="East Glacier, Montana" coords="23,96,23,141,71,141,80,129,80,100,46,99,43,93" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=99"><area shape="rect" alt="Shelby, Montana" coords="189,94,246,129" href="/categories/city.asp?CityID=304"><area shape="rect" alt="Ledger, Montana" coords="192,136,236,153" href="/categories/city.51053SUNBURSTRUSSELLMT59482