Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants, particularly the Irish; as of 2017, Butte Montana has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States.
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Butte Montana was the site of various historical events involving its mining industry and active labor unions and Socialist politics, the most famous of which was the labor riot of 1914.
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Butte Montana was a part-owner, mine manager and engineer of the Alice, a silver mine in Walkerville, a suburb of Butte.
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In May 1893, about forty delegates from northern hard-rock mining camps met in Butte Montana and established the Western Federation of Miners, which sought to organize miners throughout the West.
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Between approximately 1900 and 1917, Butte Montana had a strong streak of Socialist politics, even electing Mayor Lewis Duncan on the Socialist ticket in 1911, and again in 1913; Duncan was impeached in 1914 for neglecting duties after a bombing in the city's miners' hall in 1914.
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Environmental cleanup in Butte Montana, designated a Superfund site, has employed hundreds of people.
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Butte Montana ceased mining in 2000, but resumed in the fall of 2003.
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Several of Butte Montana's "painted ladies"-homes were featured in the 1987 book Daughters of Painted Ladies by Elizabeth Pomada.
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Butte Montana has a cold semi-arid climate under the Koppen Climate Classification.
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Per capita, Butte Montana has the highest percentage of Irish Americans of any city in the United States.
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In 1977, Butte Montana consolidated with Silver Bow County, becoming a consolidated city-county.
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Politically, Butte Montana has historically been a Democratic stronghold, owing to its union legacy.
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In 2010, Max Yates was the next Butte Montana Republican elected to the legislature; however, neither Beaudry or Yates were re-elected.
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In 2014, Butte became the third city in Montana to pass an anti-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBT residents and visitors from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations.
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Butte Montana is home to numerous museums and other educational institutions chronicling the city's history.
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In 2002, Butte Montana was one of only twelve towns in America to be named a Distinctive Destination by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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The Butte Montana library was created in 1894 as "an antidote to the miners' proclivity for drinking, whoring, and gambling, " designed to promote middle-class values and to promote an image of Butte Montana as a cultivated city.
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In 2008, Barack Obama spent his last Fourth of July before his Presidency campaigning in Butte Montana, taking in the parade with his family, and celebrating his daughter Malia Obama's 10th birthday.
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Legacy of the immigrants in Butte Montana lives on in the form of various local cuisine, including the Cornish pasty which was popularized by mine workers who needed something easy to eat in the mines, the povitica—a Slavic nut bread pastry which is a holiday favorite sold in many supermarkets and bakeries in Butte Montana—and the boneless porkchop sandwich.
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The mining and smelting activity in Butte Montana resulted in significant contamination of the Butte Montana Hill as well as downstream and downwind areas.
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In October 2020, Butte Montana was awarded a team in the Expedition League to begin play in May 2021.
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The first film to notably feature Butte Montana was Evel Knievel, a biopic of Evel Knievel, a Butte Montana native.
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One of the earliest literary depictions of Butte Montana was by Mary MacLane, a diarist who wrote of her life growing up in the town at the turn of the twentieth century.
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