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Communities within the valley include: Lolo in Missoula County; and Florence, Stevensville, Victor, Corvallis, Hamilton, Darby, Conner, and Sula in Ravalli County. Hamilton, the largest town and the county seat of Ravalli County, is located at 46°14.8'N and 114°09.6'W at an elevation of 3,570 feet (1,090 m) with a population of 12,000.
The Bitterroot Valley is the ancestral homeland of the Bitterroot Salish people. Between 1812 and 1821, the Salish learned about the "powerful medicine" of Christianity and Jesuit missionaries from Iroquois fur traders. In 1831, four young Salish men were dispatched to St. Louis, Missouri, to request "Black Robes" for the tribe. [5]
The Northern Bitterroot Range is the northernmost and shortest subrange of the Bitterroot Mountains. The Northern Bitterroots encompass 1,869 square miles (4,841 km 2 ) and its two tallest peaks are the 7,930 foot (2,417 m) Rhodes Peak and the 7,770 foot (2,368 m) Quartz Benchmark .
Ravalli County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Montana.As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,174. [1] Its county seat is Hamilton. [2]Ravalli County is part of a north–south mountain valley bordered by the Sapphire Mountains on the East and the Bitterroot Mountains on the West.
The Bitterroot College Program of the University of Montana is located in Hamilton. [24] In May 2012, it was renamed Bitterroot College University of Montana. [25] [26] The Bitterroot Public Library serves the town of Hamilton. It was one of the 17 Carnegie libraries built in Montana. [27]
Saint Mary Peak is located in the Bitterroot Range, which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. It is situated eight miles west of Stevensville in the Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness, on land managed by Bitterroot National Forest. [4] The summit lies five miles east of the Idaho–Montana border.
The Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the states of Idaho and Montana, in the northwestern United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At 1.3 million acres (5,300 km²), it is one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the United States (14th overall, but third-largest outside Alaska ).
The Bitterroot Range is a mountain range and a subrange of the Rocky Mountains that runs along the border of Montana and Idaho in the northwestern United States. The range spans an area of 24,223 square miles (62,740 km 2 ) and is named after the bitterroot ( Lewisia rediviva ), a small pink flower that is the state flower of Montana.