Whitetail is a small,

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village in northern Daniels County,

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, United States. The area was first used as a camp along a cattle-driving route in the 1880s. The town grew with the arrival of the

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in 1914. The line was planned for extension all the way to Glacier National Park, but work was stopped during

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and the line never went any farther than Whitetail. At its peak the town had more than 500 residents, declining to 248 in 1940 and 125 in 1970. The town's chief industry was the manufacture of

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s from 1940, but the plant closed, followed by Whitetail High School in 1940 and the grade school in 1973. The small checkpoint along Montana's border with

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, which served about three travelers every day, was set to receive $15 million for upgrades under President

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's economic stimulus plan. On April 1, 2011, Canada closed its border to northbound traffic through Whitetail. The US followed suit and closed the southbound crossing on January 25, 2013. A dam along Whitetail Creek forms

Whitetail Reservoir White tail or whitetail may refer to: Places * Whitetail, Montana * Whitetail Ski Resort Animals Mammals * White-tailed deer * White-tailed jackrabbit Fish * '' Centropyge flavicauda'' or whitetail angelfish, an angelfish from the Indo-pacific O ...

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* Unincorporated communities in Daniels County, Montana Unincorporated communities in Montana {{DanielsCountyMT-geo-stub