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Ravalli County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Montana.As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,174. [1] Its county seat is Hamilton. [2]Ravalli County is part of a north–south mountain valley bordered by the Sapphire Mountains on the East and the Bitterroot Mountains on the West.
Communities within the valley include: Lolo in Missoula County; and Florence, Stevensville, Victor, Corvallis, Hamilton, Darby, Conner, and Sula in Ravalli County. Hamilton, the largest town and the county seat of Ravalli County, is located at 46°14.8'N and 114°09.6'W at an elevation of 3,570 feet (1,090 m) with a population of 12,000.
Hamilton High School; The Bitterroot College Program of the University of Montana is located in Hamilton. [24] In May 2012, it was renamed Bitterroot College University of Montana. [25] [26] The Bitterroot Public Library serves the town of Hamilton. It was one of the 17 Carnegie libraries built in Montana. [27]
Stevensville (Salish: ɫq̓éɫmlš [3]) is a town in Ravalli County, Montana, United States.The population was 2,002 at the 2020 census. [4]Stevensville is officially recognized as the first permanent settlement of non-indigenous peoples in the state of Montana.
Conner is located at the confluence of the East and West Forks of the Bitterroot River. U.S. Route 93 passes just to the east of the CDP, leading north through the Bitterroot Valley 24 miles (39 km) to Hamilton, the county seat, and south over Lost Trail Pass 69 miles (111 km) to Salmon, Idaho.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
As of the census [9] of 2000, there were 443 people, 185 households, and 120 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 934.6 inhabitants per square mile (360.9/km 2).
The Central Bitterroot Range is the southernmost and tallest subrange of the Bitterroot Mountains. The Central Bitterroots encompass 2,993 square miles (7,752 km 2 ) and its two tallest peaks are the 10,157 foot (3,096 m) Trapper Peak and the 9,983 foot (3,043 m) El Capitan .