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Deer Lodge County, Montana

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
34historic places
—earliest paper
1864formed
9,421pop. 2020
6cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 34 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Anaconda.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Montana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Deer Lodge titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

20 of 34 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

34 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Alpine ApartmentsAnacondaBuilding1998
Anaconda Commercial Historic DistrictAnacondaDistrict1998
Anaconda Copper Mining Company Smoke StackAnacondaStructure1987
Anaconda Saddle ClubAnacondaDistrict2007
Ancient Order of Hibernians HallAnacondaBuilding1979
Barich BlockAnacondaBuilding1983
Branscombe Automobile Machine ShopAnacondaBuilding2000
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic DistrictAnacondaDistrict1988
California Creek QuarryAnacondaSite1989
City HallAnacondaBuilding1979
Club ModerneAnacondaBuilding1986
Collins, James V., HouseAnacondaBuilding2000
Davidson BuildingAnacondaBuilding1983
Deer Lodge County CourthouseAnacondaBuilding1978
Driver’s Saloon and CaféAnacondaBuilding2023
Eck, Theodore, HouseAnacondaBuilding1998
Furst, John, HouseAnacondaBuilding1998
Glenn's Dam Historic DistrictAnacondaDistrict2020
Glover CabinAnacondaBuilding2000
Goosetown Historic DistrictAnacondaDistrict1998
Granite ApartmentsAnacondaBuilding2000
Hearst Free LibraryAnacondaBuilding1973
Lorraine ApartmentsAnacondaBuilding2000
Matheson, Duncan, HouseAnacondaBuilding1998
Methodist Episcopal Church of AnacondaAnacondaBuilding1994
Morel BridgeAnacondaStructure2000
New Brunswick House, TheAnacondaBuilding2000
Sheehan BoardinghouseAnacondaBuilding2000
St. Mark's Episcopal ChurchAnacondaBuilding1978
US Post Office-Anaconda MainAnacondaBuilding1986
Waddell, George, HouseAnacondaBuilding1998
Washoe TheaterAnacondaBuilding1982
West Side Historic DistrictAnacondaDistrict1998
Zion Swedish Evangelical Lutheran ChurchAnacondaBuilding1998

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Deer Lodge was formed in 1864 (1864-01-16) from Missoula, IDAHO (Id.

DEER LODGE created by Idaho Territory from MISSOULA, IDAHO (Id.), and non-county area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Deer Lodge County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

19k12k4,3671870188019201950196020002020
1870188019001920194019501960198020002020
4,3678,87617,39315,32313,62716,55318,64012,5189,4179,421

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic SitePark unit46.6 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

6 cemeteries and 7 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed
NameLatLon
Anaconda Catholic Cemetery46.11717-112.86481
Lower Hill Cemetery46.1227-112.95836
Mount Carmel Cemetery46.12436-112.96197
Mount Olivet Cemetery46.12979-112.97527
New Hill Cemetery46.13872-112.99335
Upper Hill Cemetery46.1227-112.96753
Historical populated places — 7 of 7
NameLatLon
Cable City46.1952-113.20922
Champion46.23382-112.61336
Fredrickson46.23826-112.82587
French Gulch45.94437-113.03143
Gold Coin46.17354-113.24478
Silver Lake46.17131-113.23506
Southern Cross46.2102-113.23645

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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