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To this day, Eastern Montana has a proud Native American population. Eastern Montana was the location of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. [3] Fort Peck Dam near Glasgow, Montana was a major project of the Public Works Administration, part of the New Deal. Construction of Fort Peck Dam started in 1933, and at its peak in July 1936 employed ...
Relief map of Montana. The state's topography is roughly defined by the Continental Divide, which splits much of the state into distinct eastern and western regions. [4] Most of Montana's hundred or more named mountain ranges are in the state's western half, most of which is geologically and geographically part of the northern Rocky Mountains.
Montana's secondary system was established in 1942, [4] but secondary highways (S routes) were not signed until the 1960s. [1] S route designations first appeared on the state highway map in 1960 [5] and are abbreviated as "S-nnn". Route numbers 201 and higher are, with very few exceptions, exclusively reserved for S routes.
At 706.272 mi (1,136.635 km), [1] Montana Highway 200 is also the longest route signed as a state highway in the United States. Highway 200 helps to connect many small towns located in central Montana and the vast plains area of eastern Montana , to larger western Montana cities such as Great Falls and Missoula .
The pass over the continental divide, now known as Lewis and Clark Pass, was part of a much used "road" for Native American people, since it was easily traversible and, most critically, the route traversing Lewis and Clark pass and also Lolo Pass farther west, was the shortest and easiest route between the plains of eastern Montana and the Columbia River Valley. [3]
Big Spring Creek (Montana) Bighorn River; Birch Creek (Chouteau County, Montana) Birch Creek (Pondera County, Montana) Bitterroot River; Blackfoot River (Montana) Blacktail Deer Creek; Bloody Dick Creek; Boulder River (southwestern Montana) Boulder River (Sweet Grass County, Montana) Boundary Creek (Alberta–Montana) Bourne Coulee
The Interstate Highways in Montana are the segments of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways owned and maintained by the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) in the U.S. state of Montana.