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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.
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.
Congressional district. 1st. Website. www.beaverheadcounty.org. Montana county number 18. 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.
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 ...
Website. www.umwestern.edu. The University of Montana Western (UMW, Montana Western) is a public college in Dillon, Montana. It is affiliated with the University of Montana and part of the Montana University System. It was founded in 1893 as Montana State Normal School and was also the Western Montana College of the University of Montana before ...
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 ...
The Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest is the largest of the National Forests in Montana, United States. Covering 3.36 million acres (13,600 km 2), the forest is broken into nine separate sections and stretches across eight counties in the southwestern area of the state. President Theodore Roosevelt named the two forests in 1908 and they ...
Missouri River. Blacktail Deer Creek is a tributary of the Beaverhead River, approximately 38 miles (61 km) long, [2] in southwest Montana, United States . It rises in the Beaverhead National Forest in the Snowcrest Range in southern Beaverhead County. It flows northwest, joining the Beaverhead River near Dillon, Montana .