Java is a

ghost town A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...

in Richland 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, located near Mondak.Roberta Carkeek Cheney: ''Names on the Face of Montana, The Story of Montana's Place Names'', Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Mont., second edition, 1983, p. 146. Named for its first postmaster, Anton Jevnager, who owned a grocery and hardware store in the community when its

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

was established in 1907, Java straddles the border with

North Dakota North Dakota ( ) is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota people, Dakota and Sioux peoples. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minneso ...

, and was noteworthy among local North Dakota residents as the home of the Blind Pig Saloon on the Montana side.

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Populated places in Richland County, Montana Ghost towns in Montana {{RichlandCountyMT-geo-stub