Potomac is an

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and

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(CDP) in

Missoula County Missoula County is a county located in the state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 117,922, making it Montana's third most populous county. Its county seat and most populous city is Missoula. The county was founded in 186 ...

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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census, at which time it had a population of 26.

Geography

Potomac is in the southeastern part of Missoula County, in the valley of Camas Creek and Union Creek, which flows northwest to the Blackfoot River, part of the Clark Fork watershed.

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passes along the northern edge of the community, leading northeast to

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and west to

Missoula Missoula ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Missoula County, Montana, Missoula County, Montana, United States. It is located along the Clark Fork River near its confluence with the Bitterroot River, Bitterroot and Blackfoot River (Montana), ...

. According to the

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, the Potomac CDP has an area of , all land.

Climate

According to the

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system, Potomac has a

warm-summer humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...

, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in Potomac was on July 14, 002, while the coldest temperature recorded was on December 23–24, 1983.

Demographics

Media

The ''Seeley-Swan Pathfinder'' is the newspaper for Potomac. It is published weekly.

Education

The school districts are Potomac Elementary School District and Missoula High School District.

References

Census-designated places in Missoula County, Montana Census-designated places in Montana {{MissoulaCountyMT-geo-stub