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English: This is a locator map showing Deer Lodge County in Montana. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Powell County Courthouse, Deer Lodge. The city is perhaps best known as the home of the Montana State Prison, a major local employer. [5] The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs and the former state tuberculosis sanitarium in nearby Galen are the result of the power the western part of the state held over Montana at statehood due to the copper and mineral wealth in that area. [6]
Deer Lodge was one of the original 9 Montana counties, as constituted with the establishment of the Montana Territory in 1864. [5] The original county included what are now Silver Bow County (separated in 1881 [6]), Deer Lodge County, Granite County (separated in 1893) and Powell County (separated in 1901 [7]). In 1976, the voters chose a ...
Anaconda, county seat of Deer Lodge County, which has a consolidated city-county government, is located in southwestern Montana, United States. Located at the foot of the Anaconda Range (known locally as the "Pintlers"), the Continental Divide passes within 8 mi (13 km) south of the community.
Powell County countryside, near Avon, Montana. According to the United States Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 2,332.7 square miles (6,042 km 2 ), of which 2,326.4 square miles (6,025 km 2 ) is land and 6.3 square miles (16 km 2 ) (0.3%) is water.
Interstate 15 and Interstate 90, Montana Highway 43 and Montana Highway 278, and the Pioneer Mountains Scenic Byway all provide access to forest service roads, trailheads and local communities near the forest. A map of Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest
A suspect has been identified in connection with the killing of a man at a Montana campsite whose death was initially reported by a 911 caller as a possible bear attack, authorities said. A friend ...
The Grant–Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, created in 1972, commemorates the Western cattle industry from its 1850s inception through recent times. The original ranch was established in 1862 by a Canadian fur trader, Johnny Grant, at Cottonwood Creek, Montana (future site of Deer Lodge, Montana), along the banks of the Clark Fork river.