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Sweet Grass County, Montana

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

8historic places

—earliest paper

1895formed

3,678pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Big Timber, Melville, Greycliff.

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 Sweet Grass titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Big Timber Town Hall	Big Timber	Building	1998
Brannin Ranch	Melville	District	1989
Carnegie Public Library	Big Timber	Building	2002
Grand Hotel	Big Timber	Building	1985
Harrison, Waborn (Wabe) and Sarah E., Ranch House	Greycliff	Building	1998
Spannring, John Otto, Family Farm	Big Timber	District	1995
St. Mark's Episcopal Church	Big Timber	Building	1995
Yellowstone Crossing, Bozeman Trail	Springdale	Site	1978

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sweet Grass was formed in 1895 (1895-03-05) from Meagher, Park, Yellowstone.

SWEET GRASS created from MEAGHER, PARK, and YELLOWSTONE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Sweet Grass County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,086	4,926	3,719	3,621	3,290	3,216	3,609	3,678

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

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Hopkins Cemetery	46.21133	-110.22129
Kent Cemetery	45.7307	-109.67288
Melville Cemetery	46.10744	-110.04045
Mountain View Cemetery	45.82359	-109.96725
Reed Point Cemetery	45.70377	-109.56243
Thomas Massacre Graves Historical	45.73522	-109.71435

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Norwegian Settlement	46.10828	-109.97574
Wormser	45.97717	-110.00047

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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