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Chinese Wall (Montana) The Chinese Wall is a large escarpment located in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area in Montana. While definitions of the length of the wall vary (to up to forty miles) the part of the wall that is most well defined and continuous is about twelve miles long. [1] The Chinese Wall makes up part of the Continental Divide ...
2804309 [2] Sage Creek Colony is a Hutterite community [3] and census-designated place (CDP) in Liberty County, Montana, United States. It is in the northern part of the county, 33 miles (53 km) north of Chester, the county seat, and 5 miles (8 km) south of the Canadian border. The community was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
The geology of Montana includes thick sequences of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks overlying ancient Archean and Proterozoic crystalline basement rock. . Eastern Montana has considerable oil and gas resources, while the uplifted Rocky Mountains in the west, which resulted from the Laramide orogeny and other tectonic events have locations with met
Highways. Website. www.billingsmt.gov. Billings is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population of 117,116 as of the 2020 census. [4] Located in the south-central portion of the state, it is the seat of Yellowstone County and the principal city of the Billings Metropolitan Area, which had a population of 184,167 in the ...
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Montana that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The state's more than 1,100 listings are distributed across all of its 56 counties. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be ...
Contents. Powder River Basin. The Powder River Basin is a geologic structural basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, about 120 miles (190 km) east to west and 200 miles (320 km) north to south, known for its extensive coal reserves. The former hunting grounds of the Oglala Lakota, the area is very sparsely populated and is known for ...
The Sage Creek Formation is a geologic formation in Montana. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period. See also. Earth sciences portal; Paleontology portal; List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Montana; Paleontology in Montana; References. Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database.
Montana is a relative hub of beer microbrewing, ranking third in the nation in number of craft breweries per capita in 2011. [ 246 ] Significant industries exist for lumber and mineral extraction; the state's resources include gold, coal, silver, talc, and vermiculite. Ecotaxes on resource extraction are numerous.