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Bannack, a Montana ghost town. This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Montana.. A ghost town is a town or city which has lost all of its businesses and population. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as a flood, government action, uncontrolled lawlessness, or war.
Map of the United States with Montana highlighted. Montana is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Montana is the 8th least populous state with 1,084,225 inhabitants but the 4th largest by land area spanning 145,545.80 square miles (376,961.9 km 2) of land. [1]
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
Pages in category "Ghost towns in Montana" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The town was completely devastated by the Smith Mine disaster of Feb. 27, 1943, considered to be the worst coal mining disaster in Montana history. [4] [5] [6] The traumatic mining accident coupled with the withdrawal of the railroad sealed the demise of the town. [2] Today Washoe is a ghost town with many buildings still standing intact. The ...
Thoeny is a ghost town in the northern part of Valley County, Montana, United States, near the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Thoeny is located north of Hinsdale and west of Opheim. The school house still stands. There is also a cemetery located on the hill.
Aldridge is a ghost town in Park County, Montana, United States. According to the book Ghost Towns of the Montana Prairie, the town was incorporated as Aldridge in 1906 but was earlier named Horr, and later Electric. Aldridge was a mining town that supplied coke and coal to the smelters for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Aldridge is ...
Map of the United States with Montana highlighted This article lists census-designated places (CDPs) in the U.S. state of Montana . As of 2018, there were a total of 235 census-designated places in Montana.