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Location of Chouteau County in Montana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Chouteau County, Montana. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Chouteau County, Montana, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
It is situated 26 miles northwest of the town of Choteau, in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Teton River . Topographic relief is significant as the southwest aspect rises 3,200 feet (980 meters) above the river in two miles, and the east aspect rises 3,700 feet (1,100 ...
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Choteau made national news in the U.S. because it is the town nearest to a 2,700-acre (11 km 2) ranch that David Letterman purchased in 1999 as a vacation home. Letterman has talked about the ranch on his late-night show and showed photos of a black bear invading the place in September 2003.
The county was established in 1865 as one of the original nine counties of Montana, and named in 1882 after Pierre Chouteau Jr., a fur trader who established a trading post that became Fort Benton, which was once an important port on the Missouri River. Chouteau County is home to the Chippewa-Cree tribe on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation.
The river was an important route for miners to the newly discovered gold fields of southern Montana at what became Bannack and Virginia City beginning in 1862, and Helena beginning in 1865. With the decline of the fur trade, the American Fur Company sold the fort to the Northwest Fur Company in 1865, and the fort became a U.S. Army post from ...
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 Montana landmarks emphasize its frontier heritage, the passage of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Montana's contributions to the national park movement, and other themes. Three sites in Montana extend across the Idaho or North Dakota state line, and are listed by the National Park Service as Idaho NHLs or North Dakota NHLs .