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English: This is a locator map showing Powder River County in Montana. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
On March 17, 1876, the Battle of Powder River occurred in the south-central part of the county, about 34 miles (55 km) southwest of Broadus. [ 5 ] Powderville was the area's first established settlement; it began operating on November 1, 1878, as the Powder River Telegraph Station on a line connecting Fort Keogh to Deadwood, South Dakota . [ 6 ]
Powderville, also Elkhorn Crossing is an unincorporated community in northeastern Powder River County, Montana, United States, along the Powder River. It is a small cluster of buildings that lies along local roads northeast of the town of Broadus, the county seat of Powder River County. [2] Its elevation is 2,828 feet (862 m). [1]
Powder River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 375 miles (604 km) long in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana in the United States. Combined with its tributary, the South Fork Powder River, it is 550 miles long. It drains an area historically known as the Powder River Country on the high plains east of the Bighorn ...
Protected areas of Powder River County, Montana (1 P) This page was last edited on 11 June 2011, at 23:32 (UTC). Text is ...
The buttes appear on maps from the 1880s and were likely named after a homesteading family whose last name was Terret or Terrett. From around 1915 until the 1940s a rural country schoolhouse called the Terret Butte School was situated along the east side of the Powder River below the buttes.
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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... There are at least 143 named lakes and reservoirs in Powder River County, Montana. Reservoirs