Stryker is 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 ...

and

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 Lincoln 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. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 26. Stryker has the 59933 ZIP code. Named for local homesteaders, Stryker served as a stage station on the Kalispell–Fort Steele (British Columbia) trail. A forest fire swept through the town in 1926. Stryker’s railroad depot closed with the construction of Libby Dam.

Geography

Stryker is located in northeastern Lincoln County on U.S. Route 93, southeast of Eureka and northwest of Kalispell. It is located just south of a

drainage divide A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins. On rugged land, the divide lies along topographical ridges, and may be in the form of a single ...

separating the Stillwater River, which runs just east of Stryker and flows southeast to the Flathead River, from Summit Creek, which flows northwest and is part of the Tobacco River watershed flowing to the

Kootenai River The Kootenay River or Kootenai River is a major river of the Northwest Plateau in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, and northern Montana and Idaho in the United States. It is one of the uppermost major tributaries of the Columbia River, ...

. According to the

U.S. Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The U.S. Census Bureau is part of the U ...

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

Demographics

Images

File:Stryker Montana building.jpg, A building in Stryker File:Stryker Montana Railroad Crossing.jpg, Railroad crossing

References

Unincorporated communities in Lincoln County, Montana Unincorporated communities in Montana Census-designated places in Lincoln County, Montana Census-designated places in Montana {{LincolnCountyMT-geo-stub