35 Facts About Billings Montana

Billings Montana was nicknamed the "Magic City" because of its rapid growth from its founding as a railroad town in March 1882.

Billings Montana is the largest retail destination for much of the same area.

Billings Montana has avoided the economic downturn that affected most of the nation from 2008 to 2012 as well as the housing bust.

Attractions in and around Billings include ZooMontana, Yellowstone Art Museum, Pompey's Pillar, Pictograph Cave, Chief Plenty Coups State Park.

Downtown core and much of the rest of Billings Montana is in the Yellowstone Valley, a canyon carved out by the Yellowstone River.

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Around 80 million years ago, the Billings Montana area was on the shore of the Western Interior Seaway.

Billings Montana named the place Pompey's Tower, naming it after the son of his Shoshone interpreter and guide Sacajawea.

In 1877 settlers from the Gallatin Valley area of the Billings Montana Territory formed Coulson the first town of the Yellowstone Valley.

Billings Montana has had rapid growth from its founding; in its first 50 years growth was, at times, as high as 200 to 300 percent per decade.

Billings Montana growth has remained robust throughout the years, and in the 1950s, it had a growth rate of 66 percent.

Billings Montana was affected by the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens in May; the city received about an inch of ash on the ground.

The Pryor Mountains directly south of Billings rise to a height of 8, 822 feet and are unlike any other landscape in Montana.

Downtown Billings Montana has a hot-summer humid continental climate depending on the isotherm used, closely bordering on semi-arid (Koppen BSk), with dry, hot summers, and cold, dry winters.

Billings Montana has many sections that comprise the whole of the city.

South side of Billings Montana is probably the oldest residential area in the city, and it is the city's most culturally diverse neighborhood.

New growth is mainly concentrated on Billings West End, where Shiloh Crossing is a new commercial development, anchored by Scheels, Montana's largest retail store.

Billings Montana is the principal city of the Billings Montana Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The percentage of wholesale business transactions done in Billings Montana is even stronger: Billings Montana accounts for more than a quarter of the wholesale business for the entire state.

Billings Montana is an energy center; Billings Montana sits amidst the largest coal reserves in the United States as well as large oil and natural gas fields.

Billings Montana has a diverse economy including a large and rapidly growing medical corridor that includes inpatient and outpatient health care.

Billings Montana has a large service sector including retail, hospitality and entertainment.

In 2006, Billings Montana voters approved $12 million to be spent on constructing a new multi-use sports facility.

The park debuted on June 29, 2008, when the Billings Montana Scarlets faced the Bozeman Bucks in American Legion regular season play.

Downtown Billings Montana has a distillery that makes a variety of handcrafted spirits.

An effort to pass a non-discrimination ordinance in Billings Montana failed in 2014, after then-mayor Tom Hanel cast a tie-breaking vote against it at the conclusion of a meeting that lasted 8.

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Billings Montana has five school districts: Billings Montana Public Schools, District 3, Elder Grove School District, Independent School District, and Canyon Creek School District.

Montana State University Billings is part of the state university system, while Rocky Mountain College and Yellowstone Baptist College are private.

Montana State University Billings was founded in 1927 as Eastern Montana Normal College to train teachers.

City College at MSU Billings Montana was established in 1969 as the Billings Montana Vocational-Technical Education Center.

Billings Montana has several community magazines including Magic City Magazine and Yellowstone Valley Woman.

The Billings Montana area has four major non-news television stations, two major news television stations, one community television station, four PBS channels and several Low-Power Television channels.

Billings Montana has an extensive trail system running throughout the metro area.

Interstate 90 runs east–west through the southern portion of Billings Montana, serving as a corridor between Billings Montana Heights, Lockwood, Downtown, South Hills, Westend, Shiloh, and Laurel.

Additionally, in January 2013, Billings Clinic was added to the Mayo Clinic Care Network, only the 12th hospital nationally to be added to the network and the only such health system in Montana.

Billings Montana is home to the world's tallest load-bearing brick building, the DoubleTree Tower, which stands 256 feet.