Muddy or Heóvonėheo'hé'e (Muddy Creek. Lit: yellow-paint-creek) is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) 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 and home to the Heóvonėheo'hé'etaneo'o or Heóvonêheo'he'é-taneno (″Muddy Creek people″)

Cheyenne The Cheyenne ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains. The Cheyenne comprise two Native American tribes, the Só'taeo'o or Só'taétaneo'o (more commonly spelled as Suhtai or Sutaio) and the (also spelled Tsitsistas, The term for th ...

people. The population was 617 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Muddy is located at (45.599225, -106.739578).

U.S. Route 212 U.S. Route 212 (US 212) is a spur of U.S. Route 12, US 12. It runs for from Yellowstone National Park to Minnesota State Highway 62 (Hennepin–Dakota counties), Minnesota Highway 62 at Edina, Minnesota. It does not intersect US 12 ...

passes through the town. It is about 5 miles from

Lame Deer Lame Deer (c. 1821–1877), also called "The Elk that Whistles Running," was a first chief of the Miniconjou Lakota (trans. "They who plant by the water") and vice chief of the Wakpokinyan (trans. "To Fly along the river") band. Biography Lame D ...

. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

At the 2000

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, there were 627 people, 149 households and 129 families residing in the CDP. The

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was 22.0 per square mile (8.5/km). There were 160 housing units at an average density of 5.6/sq mi (2.2/km). The racial makeup of the CDP was 5.42%

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, 94.26% Native American, and 0.32% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 3.03% of the population. There were 149 households, of which 63.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.6% were

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living together, 31.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 13.4% were non-families. 8.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.21 and the average family size was 4.34. 46.4% of the population were under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 14.8% from 45 to 64, and 1.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 20 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.6 males. The

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was $24,688 and the median family income for a family was $23,529. Males had a median income of $26,806 compared with $11,458 for females. The

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for the CDP was $4,837. About 45.4% of families and 59.9% of the population were below the

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, including 69.5% of those under age 18 and 100.0% of those age 65 or over.

Notable person

* Red Armed Panther

References

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