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The Madison rises in Teton County in northwestern Wyoming at the confluence of the Firehole and Gibbon rivers, a location in Yellowstone National Park called Madison Junction. It first flows west, then north through the mountains of southwestern Montana to join the Jefferson and the Gallatin rivers at Three Forks.
The Firehole River is located in northwestern Wyoming, and is one of the two major tributaries of the Madison River. It flows north approximately 21 miles (34 km) from its source in Madison Lake on the Continental Divide to join the Gibbon River at Madison Junction in Yellowstone National Park. It is part of the Missouri River system.
US 287 was originally designated as Montana State Highway 287 (MT 287). The Montana State Highway Commission first assigned the MT 287 designation in 1958 to a cross-state route from Yellowstone National Park at West Yellowstone to the Canada–United States border at the Piegan–Carway Border Crossing between Babb and Cardston, Alberta.
Madison County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,623. [2] Its county seat is Virginia City. [3] The county was founded in 1865; [4] at the time it was part of the Montana Territory.
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Montana, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
Early maps listed the river as Gibbons Fork or the East Fork of the Madison River. The river between Norris and Madison Junction is paralleled by the Grand Loop Road . The river, along with Gibbon Falls , is named for Colonel John Gibbon , [ 5 ] U.S. Army who participated in the 1872 Hayden Geological Survey of Yellowstone.
US 191 in Montana begins at the West Entrance to Yellowstone National Park concurrent with US 20 and US 287, at the edge of the town of West Yellowstone.Some commercially produced maps show US 191 going through Yellowstone National Park; however, it officially has a gap inside the park and resumes in Wyoming at the South Entrance.
Topo map: USGS Madison Junction: Climbing; Easiest route: Hike: National Park Mountain (7,553 feet (2,302 m)) is in Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. state of ...