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Jackson is an unincorporated community in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States. [2] Jackson has a post office with a ZIP code 59736. [ 3 ] As of the 2020 census, Jackson had a population of 36.
Like other mountains in Glacier National Park, Mount Jackson is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 160 miles (260 km) long ...
Gunsight Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana. The lake is surrounded by high peaks including Fusillade Mountain to the north and Gunsight Mountain to the west. Mount Jackson rises more than 4,700 feet (1,400 m) above Gunsight Lake to the south. [2] Lantern Slide image of Gunsight Lake with Mount Jackson in ...
In 1996, it became the latest U.S. highway to travel from border to border, with the extension from Malta, Montana to the Canada–US border, absorbing former Montana Secondary Highway 242. [ citation needed ] In 2003, the remainder of US 666 between I-40 and US 191 in Monticello, Utah was renumbered US 491 .
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Blackfoot Mountain (9,579 ft (2,920 m)) is located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. [3] To the north of Blackfoot Mountain lies Blackfoot Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the park. The stagnant Pumpelly Glacier is located to the immediate east and northeast of the mountain.
A part of the largest grouping of glaciers in the park, Jackson Glacier rests on the north side of Mount Jackson. [3] The glacier was most recently measured in 2005 at 250 acres (1.0 km 2 ), yet when first documented in 1850, the glacier also included the now separate Blackfoot Glacier and together, they covered 1,875 acres (7.59 km 2 ).
US 191 in Montana begins at the West Entrance to Yellowstone National Park concurrent with US 20 and US 287, at the edge of the town of West Yellowstone.Some commercially produced maps show US 191 going through Yellowstone National Park; however, it officially has a gap inside the park and resumes in Wyoming at the South Entrance.