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Fallon County, Montana

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1913formed

3,049pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1998. Most listings are in or near Baker, Ismay.

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 Fallon titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Baker Hotel	Baker	Building	2005
Cottonwood Creek Bridge	Ismay	Structure	2014
Fallon County Jail	Baker	Building	1998

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Fallon was formed in 1913 (1913-12-09) from Custer.

FALLON created by petition and election from CUSTER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Fallon County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,548	3,719	3,660	3,997	3,763	2,837	3,049

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

7 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bonnievale Cemetery	46.38194	-104.27965
Community Union Cemetery	46.41805	-104.52938
Fertile Prairie Cemetery	46.33972	-104.09409
Lame Jones Cemetery	46.22281	-104.61831
Peace Lutheran Cemetery	46.41694	-104.52994
Saint Anthony Cemetery	46.40416	-104.52049
Saint John The Evangelist Cemetery	46.35639	-104.28271

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Knobs	45.98417	-104.08771
MacKenzie	46.15722	-104.71329

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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