unincorporated community
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in
Deer Lodge County, Montana
Deer Lodge County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 9,421. It forms a consolidated city-county government with its county seat of Anaconda, Mo ...
, United States. The town can be accessed via exit 201 on
Interstate 90
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psychiatric hospital
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operated by the state of Montana. The hospital was founded by the Territorial Government of Montana in 1877. The State of Montana purchased the hospital in 1912 and renamed it Warm Springs State Hospital in 1965.
The "warm springs" are located on the hospital campus. Hot water seeps from a
limestone
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cone that is about 40 feet high.
The Native Americans called this the "Lodge of the Whitetailed Deer" giving the Deer Lodge Valley its name. There are no community services other than a bar and
convenience store
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on the frontage road and a
post office
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