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Billings, Montana. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Yellowstone. Associated ZIP codes: 59101, 59102, 59103, 59104, 59105, 59106, 59107, 59108, 59111, 59112, 59114, 59115, 59116, 59117.
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In Montana, ice skating can feel like a natural part of winter — but getting on the ice often comes with a price tag. One Billings woman is working to chan...
A moisture-starved cold front moved over Montana and Wyoming on Thursday, but only brought clouds to our region. We'll have fewer clouds Friday morning, and...
BILLINGS, Mont. (KFYR/KMOT) – Voters in Montana elected Republican Kurt Alme to the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s elections.
BILLINGS, Monta. (KFYR/KMOT) – Voters in eastern Montana are sending Troy Downing back to the U.S. House.
Montana has no blanket Halloween restrictions for registered offenders, so parents are relying on awareness, planning and the state registry to keep kids saf...
BILLINGS, Mont. — While trunk-or-treats and organized Halloween events give families across Montana more ways to celebrate, one Billings neighborhood is ke...
Billings, Mont. — Montana leaders said a new online talent marketplace is being built to help students, job seekers and people changing careers find work,...
BILLINGS, Mont. — Drivers in the Billings area will see a major change to traffic patterns in Lockwood as the Montana Department of Transportation prepares...
President of Montana Spaceport and Test Range introduces initiative at Billings Chamber AM meeting in October.
Billings Clinic has been reverified by the American College of Surgeons as a Level I Trauma Center. In 2023, it became the first in the state to receive the...
Plans were revealed for a Montana Spaceport and Test Range during the annual Billings Chamber AM meeting, at the Northern Hotel early Friday morning.
Photos from the MSU Billings women's basketball elementary school exhibition game against Montana Tech at Alterowitz on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026.
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Billings is in Yellowstone County, Montana.
Region: Central Montana
59101, 59102, 59103, 59104, 59105, 59106, 59107, 59108, 59111, 59112, 59114, 59115, 59116, 59117
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Billings lies in the Yellowstone Valley, where the river cut down through Eagle Sandstone, laid down on the shore of an inland sea about 80 million years ago, to form the cliffs known as the Rimrocks. At Pictograph Caves, about five miles south of downtown, more than 100 rock paintings, the oldest over 2,000 years old, and some 30,000 artifacts show that people lived there from at least 2600 BC until after 1800. The Crow have called the area home since about 1700, and the Crow Nation lies just to the south. The Crow name for the city means "where they cut wood," and the Cheyenne and Gros Ventre names also refer to an early settlers' sawmill.
In July 1806 William Clark passed through the area. On July 25 he climbed a striking rock, carved his name and the date into it and named it Pompey's Tower, after the son of Sacagawea. The carving is the only physical evidence left by the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and Pompey's Pillar became a national monument in January 2001. The area, then called Clark's Fork Bottom, was meant to be a hub for hauling freight to the rich Judith and Musselshell basins. In 1877 settlers from the Gallatin Valley founded Coulson, the first town in the Yellowstone Valley, when John Alderson built a sawmill and P.W. McAdow opened a store and trading post on Alderson's land by the river. It was named in hopes of attracting the Coulson Packet Company's riverboats, which carried most goods to and from the territory. Billings itself is named for Frederick H. Billings of Woodstock, Vermont, a former president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Sources Wikipedia: Billings, Montana
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