Kirby was an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Big Horn 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. The community location is at an elevation of . The site is on the west bank of Rosebud Creek. Rosebud Battlefield State Park lies approximately twelve miles south of the community, just west of Rosebud Creek.ROSEBUD BATTLEFIELD/WHERE THE GIRL SAVED HER BROTHER
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History

The town site of Kirby was at Montana Highway 314 and Cache Creek Road. It was directly east of the Crow Indian Reservation and south of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in the Rosebud Creek valley. A post office was operational from 1895 until 1970 with the ZIP Code of 59042. Kirby 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 ...

with no more than a couple remaining buildings, including the former post office.

References

Unincorporated communities in Big Horn County, Montana Unincorporated communities in Montana {{BigHornCountyMT-geo-stub