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2409651 [2] Website. www.co.silverbow.mt.us. Butte (/ bjuːt / BEWT) is a consolidated city-county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers 718 square miles (1,860 km 2), and, according to the 2020 census ...
History of Butte, Montana. Original Butte courthouse, 1885. A headframe overlooking Butte. Butte is a city in southwestern Montana established as a mining camp in the 1860s in the northern Rocky Mountains straddling the Continental Divide. Butte became a hotbed for silver and gold mining in its early stages, and grew exponentially upon the ...
KWYB. KWYB (channel 18) is a television station in Butte, Montana, United States, affiliated with ABC and Fox. Owned by the Cowles Company, the station has studios on Dewey Boulevard in Butte, and its transmitter is located on XL Heights east of the city. KWYB-LD (channel 28) in Bozeman, Montana operates as a low-power semi-satellite of KWYB.
July 28, 2024 at 10:51 PM. FOREST RANCH, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires across the western United States and Canada put millions of people under air quality alerts on Sunday as thousands of ...
Proposed. 30 December 1982. Listed. 8 September 1983. List of Superfund sites. The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine in the western United States, located in Butte, Montana. It is one mile (1.6 km) long by one-half mile (800 m) wide, with an approximate maximum depth of 1,780 feet (540 m). It is filled to a depth of about 900 feet ...
Pekin Noodle Parlors (built 1909) is the second oldest continuously [1] operating Chinese restaurant in the United States, located in Butte, Montana. The restaurant was founded in its current location in 1911 by Hum Yow and Tam Kwong Yee. [2] Along with the Wah Chong Tai Company mercantile building (1891) and the Mai Wah Noodle Parlor (1909 ...
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Speculator Mine disaster. The Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917, occurred as a result of a fire in a copper mine, and was the most deadly event in underground hard rock mining in United States history. Most men died of suffocation underground as the fire consumed their oxygen; a total of 168 miners were killed.