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National Register of Historic Places listings in Montana. This is a list of properties and historic districts in Montana that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The state's more than 1,100 listings are distributed across all of its 56 counties . The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all ...
Western Montana. Western Montana is the western region of the U.S. state of Montana. The most restrictive definition limits western Montana only to the parts of the state west of the Continental Divide. Other common definitions add in the mountainous areas east of the divide including Beaverhead, Gallatin, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Madison ...
This is a list of mountain ranges in the state of Montana. Montana is the fourth largest state in the United States and is well known for its mountains. The name "Montana" means "mountainous" in Latin. Representative James Mitchell Ashley ( R - Ohio ), suggested the name when legislation organizing the territory was passed by the United States Congress in 1864. Ashley noted that a mining camp ...
History of Butte, Montana. Original Butte courthouse, 1885. A headframe overlooking Butte. Butte is a city in southwestern Montana established as a mining camp in the 1860s in the northern Rocky Mountains straddling the Continental Divide. Butte became a hotbed for silver and gold mining in its early stages, and grew exponentially upon the ...
Butte ( / bjuːt / BEWT) is a consolidated city-county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers 718 square miles (1,860 km 2 ), and, according to the 2020 census, has a population of 34,494, making it ...
West Butte is the highest peak in the Sweet Grass Hills and the highest in the county. [1] [2] It is situated 34 miles (55 km) north-northeast of Shelby, Montana, and four miles (6.4 km) south of the Canada–United States border, on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. [4] Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains south to the Marias River and north to the Milk River. [1 ...
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of Montana .
Counties of Montana. This is a list of the counties in the U.S. state of Montana. There are 56 counties in the state. Montana has two consolidated city-counties— Anaconda with Deer Lodge County and Butte with Silver Bow County. The portion of Yellowstone National Park that lies within Montana was not part of any county until 1978, when part ...