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Dillon is a city in and the county seat of Beaverhead County, Montana, United States. [3] The population was 3,880 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] The city was named for Sidney Dillon (1812–1892), president of Union Pacific Railroad .
Website. www.umwestern.edu. The University of Montana Western (UMW, Montana Western) is a public college in Dillon, Montana. It is affiliated with the University of Montana and part of the Montana University System. It was founded in 1893 as Montana State Normal School and was also the Western Montana College of the University of Montana before ...
Congressional district. 1st. Website. www.beaverheadcounty.org. Montana county number 18. Beaverhead County is the largest county by area in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,371. [1] Its county seat is Dillon. [2] The county was founded in 1865.
Bannack, Montana. Bannack is a ghost town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, located on Grasshopper Creek, approximately 11 miles (18 km) upstream from where Grasshopper Creek joins with the Beaverhead River south of Dillon. Founded in 1862, the town is a National Historic Landmark managed by the state of Montana as Bannack State Park.
Clark's Lookout State Park is a Montana state park located one mile north of the community of Dillon. The 8-acre (3.2 ha) park encompasses the hill overlooking the Beaverhead River that William Clark climbed on August 13, 1805, during the Lewis and Clark Expedition. From the vantage point, Clark took various compass readings and sketched a map ...
83003978 [1] Added to NRHP. December 13, 1983. The Hotel Metlen, located at 5 S. Railroad Ave. in Dillon in Beaverhead County, Montana, was built in 1897 by Joseph C. Metlen. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1] [2] It is prominent in the community. It was built to accommodate travellers and is located by the ...
Helena, Montana: Montana Magazine. ISBN 1-891152-09-2. Anderson, Jonathan (1984). Beartooth Country: Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains-Montana Geographic Series #7. Helena, Montana: Montana Magazine. ISBN 0-938314-13-0. Melroy, Mark (1986). Islands on the Prairie-The Mountain Ranges of Eastern Montana-Montana Geographic Series #13. Helena ...
Montana is a relative hub of beer microbrewing, ranking third in the nation in number of craft breweries per capita in 2011. [246] Significant industries exist for lumber and mineral extraction; the state's resources include gold, coal, silver, talc, and vermiculite. Ecotaxes on resource extraction are numerous.