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This is a list of mountain ranges in the state of Montana. Montana is the fourth largest state in the United States and is well known for its mountains. The name "Montana" is Spanish for "Mountain". Representative James Mitchell Ashley (R-Ohio), suggested the name when legislation organizing the territory was passed by the United States ...
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first table below ranks the 50 highest major summits of Montana by elevation.
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.
The Gallatin Range is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains, located in the U.S. states of Montana and Wyoming. It includes more than 10 mountains over 10,000 feet (3,000 m). [ 1 ] The highest peak in the range is Electric Peak at 10,969 feet (3,343 m).
[1] [2] It includes the Macdonald Range in British Columbia and Montana west of the Flathead River and east of the Wigwam River, the Clark Range straddling the British Columbia-Alberta-Montana borders east of the Flathead River, the Galton Range in British Columbia and Montana on the west side of the Wigwam River, and the Lewis Range in Alberta ...
Montana is the fourth largest state in the United States and is well known [by whom?] for its mountains. The name "Montana" means mountainous in Latin . Representative James Mitchell Ashley ( R - Ohio ), suggested the name when legislation organizing the territory was passed by the United States Congress in 1864.
The Santa Fe Mountains at the southern end of the Rockies as seen from the Sandia Crest in New Mexico The summits of the Teton Range in Wyoming. The name of the mountains is a calque of an Algonquian name, specifically Plains Cree ᐊᓯᓃᐘᒋᐩ asinîwaciy (originally transcribed as-sin-wati), literally "rocky mountain / alp".
The Mission Mountains or Mission Range are a range of the Rocky Mountains located in northwestern Montana in the United States. They lie chiefly in Lake County and Missoula County and are south and east of Flathead Lake and west of the Swan Range .