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Missoula, Montana. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Missoula. Associated ZIP codes: 59801, 59802, 59803, 59804, 59806, 59807, 59808, 59812.
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Audio of an emergency dispatch broadcast reveals that EMTs responded to reports that an inmate at the Missoula County jail was conscious and breathing, but v...
The Montana Supreme Court ruled last week that a Missoula Municipal Court judge “abused his discretion” when he dismissed a domestic violence charge agai...
Linda Jeanne Hill Sadler lived a life rich in education, service, faith, friendship and flowers.
The Montana Supreme Court approved discipline against a Missoula lawyer who worked for the Office of Public Defender and tried to take possession of a house...
Tom Larson, Montana native & Missoula resident from 1969 to 2005, died after a short illness at this home. Tom was a graduate of the Misso…
The 12th annual Montana Film Festival is playing at The Roxy Theater in Missoula from Oct. 22-25, bringing 39 independent films from around the world.
MISSOULA, MT — Ahead of President Donald Trump’s rally on Wednesday in support of Republican Aaron Flint for MT01, Independent senate candidate Seth Bodn...
Missoula pediatrician Laurie Carter is piloting a program with University of Montana researchers as part of RESOLVE, a new strategic healthcare partnership b...
As Alani Bankhead reassured a Missoula crowd she won’t back out, Montana’s Republican Secretary of State seemed to entertain the rumor.
The air quality across Missoula County is "moderate" to "unhealthy for sensitive groups" and western Montana can expect continued poor air quality alongside...
Iris Hancock (Bozeman) and Jaxon Allery (Missoula Sentinel/Montana Tech) won the 2026 Montana 100 races July 17, 2026 at Lockwood.
"Farmer Fred" Stewart of Green Bench Orchard in Missoula lost what would have become about 12,600 pounds of apples to a freeze on May 18.
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Missoula is in Missoula County, Montana.
Region: Western Montana
59801, 59802, 59803, 59804, 59806, 59807, 59808, 59812
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Artifacts show people in the Missoula Valley 12,000 years ago, with settlements as early as 3500 BCE, and from the 1700s to the 1850s the Salish, Kootenai, Pend d'Oreille, Blackfeet and Shoshone used the land. At the meeting of five mountain valleys, it was crossed by tribes heading to the eastern plains to hunt bison, and conflict was common. The narrow valley at its eastern entrance was so strewn with bones from ambushes that French trappers called it Porte de l'Enfer, "Gate of Hell," and the area was known as Hell Gate until 1866.
Lewis and Clark camped twice at Traveler's Rest just south of Missoula, in September 1805 and again in June and July 1806, when Clark went south along the Bitterroot and Lewis went north and then east through Hellgate Canyon. In 1860 Christopher P. Higgins and Frank Worden founded Hell Gate Village, a trading post 5 miles west of today's downtown on the new Mullan Road, the first wagon road across the Rockies to the inland Northwest. In 1864 the settlement moved to its present site for better water power for a lumber and flour mill. Missoula Mills replaced Hell Gate Village as the valley's center and as county seat in 1866. The name Missoula comes from the Salish name for the Clark Fork River, nmesuletkw, roughly "place of frozen water." Fort Missoula was built in 1877 to protect settlers, and growth sped up when the Northern Pacific Railway arrived in 1883, the year Missoula incorporated as a town. Sources Wikipedia: Missoula, Montana
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