Prairie County, Montana
Prairie County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,088, making it the fifth-least populous county in Montana. Its county seat is Terry. Prairie County was created by the Montana Legislature in 1915 out of parts of Custer, Dawson, and Fallon Counties. The name was selected in a contest and reflects the predominant landscape of the region. The county was the site of the 1938 Custer Creek train wreck that killed 47 people and injured 75. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.3%) is water. Major highways * Interstate 94 * Montana Highway 253 Adjacent counties * McCone County - north * Dawson County - northeast * Wibaux County - east * Fallon County - southeast * Custer County - south * Garfield County - west Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 census, there were 1,088 people living in the county. 2010 census As of the 2010 census, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Terry, Montana
Terry, is a town in Prairie County, Montana, Prairie County, Montana, United States, and the county seat. The population was 562 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History The site where Terry is located was first called Joubert's Landing, in recognition of the man who built a supply point along the Yellowstone River for freighters traveling from Bismarck, North Dakota, Bismarck, Dakota Territory, to Miles City, Montana, Miles City, Montana Territory. When the Northern Pacific Railway's Transcontinental railroad, transcontinental rail line arrived in 1881, the town was renamed for Alfred Howe Terry, a General officer, general in the Union Army who commanded an 1876 expedition in connection with George Armstrong Custer’s campaign against Native Americans, specifically in the west. Terry became a two-railroad town when the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Milwaukee Road constructed a transcontinental line known as the Pacific Extension through the t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Garfield County, Montana
Garfield County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,173. Its county seat is Jordan. Garfield County is noteworthy as the site of the discovery and excavation of four of the world's dozen or so major specimens (as of 1994) of ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. A cast of the skull of one of these dinosaurs is on display at the Garfield County Museum. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (3.6%) is water. Its average population density of is the third-lowest of any county outside of Alaska (behind Loving County, Texas and Esmeralda County, Nevada). Major highways * Montana Highway 22 * Montana Highway 59 * Montana Highway 24 * Montana Highway 200 Adjacent counties * Phillips County – northwest * Valley County – north * McCone County – east * Prairie County – east * Custer County – southeast * Rosebud County – south * Petroleum C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Lakes In Prairie County, Montana
There are at least 15 named lakes and reservoirs in Prairie County, Montana. Lakes Reservoirs * Airport Reservoir. , el. * Archdale Reservoir. , el. * Ban Reservoir Number 1. , el. * Clark Reservoir. , el. * Coal Creek Reservoir. , el. * Grant Reservoir. , el. * Homestead Reservoir. , el. * Horse Reservoir. , el. * Hunter Creek Reservoir. , el. * Innes Reservoir. , el. * Little Garrison Reservoir. , el. * McClure Reservoir. , el. * Papps Reservoir. , el. * Silvertip Reservoir. , el. * South Fork Reservoir. , el. See also * List of lakes in Montana References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Lakes In Prairie County, Montana Bodies of water of Prairie County, Montana Lists of lakes of Montana by county, Prairie ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zero, Montana
Zero is an unincorporated community in Prairie County, Montana Montana ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, an ..., United States. Its post office is closed. Notes Unincorporated communities in Prairie County, Montana Unincorporated communities in Montana {{PrairieCountyMT-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Saugus, Montana
Saugus is a rural unincorporated community in Prairie County, Montana, United States, along the Yellowstone River. It was the location of the Custer Creek train wreck. Saugus was once one of the biggest cattle and horse shipping points in eastern Montana. In 1909, then in Custer County, Saugus opened its post office. Saugus was also home to a school. In 1925, the post office was discontinued. The community is now served by the Terry post office (Zip Code 59349). The town was on the Milwaukee Road railroad line. On June 19, 1938, the ''Olympian #15'', a Trans-Missouri passenger train, derailed when bridge piers were undermined by the high water of Custer Creek caused by a cloudburst. Seven of the 11 cars derailed. Of the 175 people aboard, 47 people drowned and 75 were injured. Some bodies were never recovered. The Milwaukee Road changed the named of the station to Susan to honor Cattlewoman Susan Haughian (who, along with her sons, owned the land the station was located on) a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mildred, Montana
Mildred is an unincorporated community in Prairie County, Montana, United States. Mildred is located along a former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad line east-southeast of Terry. It was platted in 1908. > File:Welcome to Mildred Montana.jpg, Welcome to Mildred (Montana) File:Mildred, MT.jpg, Abandoned bank and church in Mildred, MT Climate According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Mildred has a cold semi-arid climate Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic ..., abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in Mildred was on July 15, 2002, while the coldest temperature recorded was on December 22, 1989. References Unincorporated communities in Prairie County, Montana Unincorporated communities in Montana ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fallon, Montana
Fallon is an unincorporated small town in Prairie County, Montana, United States. The population was 164 at the 2010 census., although, as the town name has been co-opted for use by the United States Census Bureau as a census-designated place, this figure may include persons living well outside the town's limits. Fallon's current mayor is Colin Armould. The town and county are named after O’Fallon Creek, which is in turn named for Benjamin O'Fallon, an Indian agent for the upper Missouri region from 1823 to 1827. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Climate According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Fallon has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 138 people, 63 households, and 36 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 95 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.55% ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Two-party system, two major parties, it emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States, slavery into U.S. territories. It rapidly gained support in the Northern United States, North, drawing in former Whig Party (United States), Whigs and Free Soil Party, Free Soilers. Abraham Lincoln's 1860 United States presidential election, election in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Under Lincoln and a Republican-controlled Congress, the party led efforts to preserve th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Poverty Line
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for the average adult.Poverty Lines – Martin Ravallion, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, London: Palgrave Macmillan The cost of housing, such as the renting, rent for an apartment, usually makes up the largest proportion of this estimate, so economists track the real estate market and other housing cost indicators as a major influence on the poverty line. Individual factors are often used to account for various circumstances, such as whether one is a parent, elderly, a child, married, etc. The poverty threshold may be adjusted annually. In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed country, developed countries than in developi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. The English identity began with the History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxons, when they were known as the , meaning "Angle kin" or "English people". Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who invaded Great Britain, Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups: the West Germanic tribes, including the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who settled in England and Wales, Southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons who already lived there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. "Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Sa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Irish People
The Irish ( or ''Na hÉireannaigh'') are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and Culture of Ireland, culture. There have been humans in Ireland for about 33,000 years, and it has been continually inhabited for more than 10,000 years (see Prehistoric Ireland). For most of Ireland's recorded history, the Irish have been primarily a Gaels, Gaelic people (see Gaelic Ireland). From the 9th century, small numbers of Vikings settled in Ireland, becoming the Norse-Gaels. Anglo-Normans also Norman invasion of Ireland, conquered parts of Ireland in the 12th century, while Kingdom of England, England's 16th/17th century Tudor conquest of Ireland, conquest and Plantations of Ireland, colonisation of Ireland brought many English people, English and Scottish Lowlands, Lowland Scottish people, Scots to parts of the island, especially the north. Today, Ireland is made up of the Republic of Ireland (officially called Republic of Irela ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Americans
Americans are the Citizenship of the United States, citizens and United States nationality law, nationals of the United States, United States of America.; ; Law of the United States, U.S. federal law does not equate nationality with Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity but rather with citizenship.* * * * * * * The U.S. has 37 American ancestries, ancestry groups with more than one million individuals. White Americans form the largest race (human classification), racial and ethnic group at 61.6% of the U.S. population, with Non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic Whites making up 57.8% of the population. Hispanic and Latino Americans form the second-largest group and are 18.7% of the American population. African Americans, Black Americans constitute the country's third-largest ancestry group and are 12.4% of the total U.S. population. Asian Americans are the country's fourth-largest group, composing 6% of the American population. The country's 3.7 million Native Americans i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |