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FIPS code. 30-20800. GNIS feature ID. 0770653 [2] Website. www.dillonmt.org. Dillon is a city in and the county seat of Beaverhead County, Montana, United States. [3] The population was 3,880 at the 2020 census. [4] The city was named for Sidney Dillon (1812–1892), president of Union Pacific Railroad.
Beaverhead County is the largest county by area in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,371. [1] Its county seat is Dillon. [2] The county was founded in 1865. [3] Much of the perimeter of the county is the Continental Divide, including its entire border with the state of Idaho.
Clark's Lookout State Park is a Montana state park located one mile north of the community of Dillon. The 8-acre (3.2 ha) park encompasses the hill overlooking the Beaverhead River that William Clark climbed on August 13, 1805, during the Lewis and Clark Expedition. From the vantage point, Clark took various compass readings and sketched a map ...
Bannack, Montana. Bannack is a ghost town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, located on Grasshopper Creek, approximately 11 miles (18 km) upstream from where Grasshopper Creek joins with the Beaverhead River south of Dillon. Founded in 1862, the town is a National Historic Landmark managed by the state of Montana as Bannack State Park.
Montana (/ mɒnˈtænə / ⓘ mon-TAN-ə) [6] is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan to the north.
Badger Pass (el. 6755 ft.) is a high mountain pass in Beaverhead County, Montana. [1] It is located between Bannack, Montana and Dillon, and traversed by Montana Secondary Highway 278. [2] [3] [4] The Badger Pass Mine is located at 45.21659 and W -112.95087. [5] A "miniature gold rush" took place in the 1930s, with the discovery of an unusual ...
Geography of Montana. Map of Montana. Montana is one of the eight Mountain States, located in the north of the region known as the Western United States. It borders North Dakota and South Dakota to the east. Wyoming is to the south, Idaho is to the west and southwest, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan are ...
Helena has been the capital of Montana Territory since 1875 and the state of Montana since 1889. Referendums were held in 1892 and 1894 to determine the state's capital; the result was to keep the capitol in Helena. In 1902, the Montana State Capitol was completed. [ 55 ][ 56 ] Until the 1900 census, Helena was the most populous city in the state.