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Libby is a city in northwestern Montana, United States and the county seat of Lincoln County. [3] The population was 2,775 at the 2020 census. [4]Libby suffered from the area's contamination from nearby vermiculite mines contaminated with particularly fragile asbestos, leading to the town's inclusion in the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List status in 2002 ...
Libby Dam is a concrete gravity dam in the northwestern United States, on the Kootenai River in northwestern Montana. Dedicated on August 24, 1975, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] it is west of the continental divide , seventeen miles (27 km) upstream from the town of Libby .
Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,677. [2] Its county seat is Libby. [3] The county was founded in 1909 and named for President Abraham Lincoln. The county lies on Montana's north border and thus shares the US-Canadian border with the Canadian province of British Columbia.
This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Lincoln County, Montana, highlighting Libby in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape.
Agriculture, however, is a much less important industry, and many of the fertile riverside lands have been flooded by the construction of dams (most notably Libby Dam in Montana, which backs water into Canada). Only about two percent of the entire Kootenay basin (1,005 square kilometres (388 sq mi) is used for agriculture, and much of that is ...
Lake Koocanusa was named in a contest won by Alice Beers of Rexford, Montana. [1] The name is a portmanteau of Kootenai River, Canada, and USA. Lake Koocanusa was built as a joint project of the U.S. and Canada. It is 26 km (16 mi) from Libby, Montana, also on the Kootenai River, from which the dam gets its name.
Map of the United States with Montana highlighted. Montana is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Montana is the 8th least populous state with 1,084,225 inhabitants but the 4th largest by land area spanning 145,545.80 square miles (376,961.9 km 2) of land. [1]
Montana State Highway 37 (MT 37) is a 67.048-mile-long (107.903 km) [2] state highway in the US state of Montana.It begins in downtown Libby, Montana at US 2 and takes a meandering course northeastwards upstream along the Kootenai River and the eastern shore of Lake Koocanusa before terminating at U.S. Route 93 at the northern end of Eureka, Montana.