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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 ]
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 ...
Coalwood is an unincorporated community in northern Powder River County, Montana, United States. It lies along Montana Highway 59, 23.5 miles (37.8 km) north of the town of Broadus, the county seat of Powder River County. [2]
The Teton County Commissioners voted in 2015 to ask that the state divert $30 million in funding earmarked for expansion of US 89 in the area to safety improvements on WYO 59. [13] On November 4, 2016, a new section of WYO 59 was opened to the north of the Eagle Butte Mine, north of Gilette. The northern section of the old WYO 59 was closed and ...
On September 13, 1865, Colonel Nelson D. Cole's and Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Walker's columns of the Powder River Expedition marched past the future site of Moorhead. On March 17, 1876, the Battle of Powder River, part of the Great Sioux War of 1876 was fought less than 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) to the north, and after the battle, the surviving United States Army soldiers retreated south across ...
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]
The Powder River/Reynolds Battlefield is located on private land near the Powder River about 34 miles (55 km) southwest of present-day Broadus. The battlefield is accessible by Montana Secondary Highway 391, (Moorhead Road) on the west side of the Powder River. There is a rock monument with the headstones of four soldiers killed there as well ...
The Thunder Basin National Grassland is located in northeastern Wyoming in the Powder River Basin between the Big Horn Mountains and the Black Hills.The Grassland ranges in elevation from 3,600 to 5,200 feet (1,100 to 1,600 m), and the climate is semi-arid.