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Roosevelt County, Montana

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1919formed

10,794pop. 2020

17cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Poplar, Bainville.

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 Roosevelt titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Fort Peck Agency	Poplar	Site	1970
Hale's Filling Station and Grocery	Bainville	Building	1994

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Roosevelt was formed in 1919 (1919-02-18) from Sheridan.

ROOSEVELT created from SHERIDAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
10,347	9,806	9,580	11,731	10,467	10,620	10,794

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

17 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 17 of 17 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bainville Cemetery	48.14198	-104.21355
Bauer Cemetery	48.14862	-104.60217
Boxelder Cemetery	48.14168	-105.26081
Chicken Hill Cemetery	48.06817	-105.72044
Courchene Cemetery	48.09945	-105.59332
Freidens Cemetery	48.24529	-104.62717
Greenwood Cemetery	48.10362	-105.65055
Hillside Cemetery	48.14723	-104.53356
Jacobson Cemetery	48.42807	-104.63106
Kings Cemetery	48.09501	-105.65305
Kvile Cemetery	48.34529	-104.49717
Mondak Cemetery	48.02032	-104.04727
Poplar Cemetery	48.11251	-105.18997
Riverview Cemetery	48.16112	-104.9144
Saint Ann's Cemetery	48.13859	-105.25935
South Froid Cemetery	48.32474	-104.49911
Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery	48.34763	-104.96432

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Benrud	48.45252	-105.53472
Boyd	48.20835	-104.66496
Deertail Indian Village	48.08641	-105.06525
Fort Union	48.00974	-104.04882

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

Historical markers

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