37 Facts About Missoula Montana

Missoula Montana was founded in 1860 as Hellgate Trading Post while still part of Washington Territory.

Missoula Montana Mills replaced Village as the economic power of the valley and replaced it as the county seat in 1866.

The name "Missoula Montana" came from the Salish name for the Clark Fork River, nmesuletkw, which roughly translates as "place of frozen water".

Fort Missoula Montana was established in 1877 to help protect further arriving settlers.

Growth accelerated with the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1883, and by charter, Missoula Montana incorporated a municipal government as a town, the same year.

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In 1893, Missoula was chosen as the location for the first state university, the University of Montana.

Missoula Montana is home of the smokejumpers' headquarters and will be the site of the National Museum of Forest Service History.

The rivers around Missoula Montana provide nesting habitats for bank swallows, northern rough-winged swallows, and belted kingfishers.

Missoula Montana has a humid continental climate, with cold and moderately snowy winters, hot and dry summers, and short, crisp springs and autumns.

Missoula Montana began as a trading post in the 1860s situated along the Mullan Military Road to take advantage of the first route across the Bitterroot Mountains to the plains of Eastern Washington.

Since opening in 1895, the University of Montana has had a major impact on the development of Missoula's economy.

Missoula Montana celebrates "First Night Missoula Montana" on New Year's Eve, which includes food and live entertainment.

Missoula Montana is home to a number of modern dance companies, including Bare Bait Dance and Headwaters Dance Company.

Fort Missoula is home to the Historic Museum, dedicated to preserving the history of Western Montana, and to the Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History and the Northern Rockies Heritage Center.

Missoula Montana has been home to Kettle House Brewing since 1995 and Draught Works opened in 2011.

Missoula Montana plays host to a variety of intercollegiate, youth, and amateur sports organizations in addition to a minor league baseball team.

Missoula Montana is home to the Missoula Montana PaddleHeads who play in the Rocky Mountain-based Pioneer Baseball League.

Since 1977, Missoula Montana has held "Maggotfest", a festival-style rugby tournament hosted by the Missoula Montana Maggots Rugby Club the first weekend in May The non-elimination tournament focuses on the fun aspect of the game, attracting 36 teams from around the United States and Canada.

In regular-season play, the Missoula Maggots compete as part of the Montana Rugby Union alongside another local rugby team, the University of Montana Jesters.

Additionally, Missoula has two aquatic parks, multiple golf courses, is home to the Adventure Cycling Association, and hosts what Runner's World called the "best overall" marathon in the U S There are three ski areas within 100 miles : Montana Snowbowl, Discovery Ski Area, and Lost Trail Powder Mountain.

In 2020, Missoula County became the first county in Montana to adopt a county sales tax on gasoline .

Missoula Montana's resigned two years later upon marrying and was replaced by Elizabeth Countryman, who later married Missoula's first mayor, The first public high school was opened in 1904, but was converted back to a grade school after the " class="mw-redirect" title="A.

Missoula Montana has several private schools including an international school, religious-affiliated schools, as well as Next Step Prep, a theater academy high school operated by the Missoula Montana Children's Theatre.

Missoula Montana is home to three local affiliate channels: KPAX-TV, KECI-TV, and KTMF-TV .

The Missoula Montana Current was founded in 2015 and provides local and regional coverage and is the state's largest digital-only news product.

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Missoula Montana has two primary health care facilities: St Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center and Community Medical Center.

The Community Medical Center and its adjacent medical facilities are located near Fort Missoula Montana and is part of a modern complex that includes a nursing home, the Missoula Montana Crippled Children's Center, and private offices.

Since then, Missoula Montana has relied on the Missoula Montana Valley Aquifer as the sole source of water.

The north side of Missoula Montana became isolated between the Interstate and the tracks while the Greenough Mansion was moved to a South Hills golf course and converted to a restaurant.

Missoula Montana has an extensive trail system for both commuting and recreation that extends over 22 miles .

Feasibility study was commissioned by Congress in 2008 to examine the merits of reopening the North Coast Hiawatha, but as of 2008, the nearest rail station to Missoula Montana is the Whitefish station of Amtrak's Empire Builder, 136 miles to the north.

Missoula Montana has produced and been home to a number of notable individuals in varying fields.

Academically, Missoula has been home to Nobel Prize winners Harold C Urey and Steve Running as well as 20th century Montana historian K Ross Toole.

Missoula Montana has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:.

Missoula's second Sister City relationship began in 1991 after a Neckargemund delegation, led by Mayor Oskar Schuster, visited Missoula following a Fulbright-sponsored faculty exchange between Heidelberg University and the University of Montana.

Author Norman Maclean grew up in Missoula Montana and wrote about it in his 1976 autobiographical novella A River Runs Through It.

Missoula Montana is mentioned as being the closest city to the fictional Hope County in Far Cry 5.