DEER LODGE, MONTANA

'Deer Lodge' is the county seat of Powell County, Montana, United States. The population was 3,421 at the 2000 census. The town is perhaps best known as the home of the Montana State Prison, a major local employer. The Montana State Hospital and former state tuberculous sanatarium are also located nearby. Deer Lodge was also once an important railroad town, serving as a division headquarters for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road"), before the railroad's local abandonment in 1980.
The current Montana State Prison occupies a campus 3.5 miles west of town. The former prison site, at the south end of Deer Lodge's Main Street, is now a museum. In addition to a former cellblock building, the museum complex includes a theater, antique and automobile museums, and a former Milwaukee Road "Little Joe" electric locomotive.
Deer Lodge is also the location of Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, dedicated to the interpretation of the frontier cattle ranching era. This site was the home of Conrad Kohrs, one of the famous "Cattle Kings" of Montana whose land holdings once stretched over a million acres (4,000 km²) of Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta, Canada. Prior to Kohrs, the ranch in was built by Jonny Grant in 1862, a Scottish/French/Metis fur-trader and trapper who encouraged his people to come settle in Deer Lodge due to its pleasent climate and large areas of bunch grass prairie that were ideal to raise cows and horses.

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Geography

Demographics

Notable people born in Deer Lodge

Film Credits

External links

Geography

Deer Lodge is located at (46.396183, -112.732922).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.7 km² (1.4 mi²), all land.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 3,421 people, 1,442 households, and 911 families residing in the city. The population density was 917.3/km² (2,369.3/mi²). There were 1,593 housing units at an average density of 427.1/km² (1,103.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 95.67% White, 0.03% African American, 1.02% Native American, 0.61% Asian, 0.61% from other races, and 2.05% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.84% of the population.
There were 1,442 households out of which 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.7% were married couples living together, 9.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% were non-families. 32.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.93.
In the city the population was spread out with 25.3% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 23.6% from 45 to 64, and 19.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 93.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $29,859, and the median income for a family was $36,108. Males had a median income of $27,903 versus $20,227 for females. The per capita income for the city was $14,883. About 8.7% of families and 10.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.3% of those under age 18 and 5.4% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people born in Deer Lodge

★ William H. Clagett-U.S. Representative from Montana Territory, lawyer.

★ Eric Funk-Composer.

★ Phil Jackson-NBA coach.

★ Jean Parker-Actress born Lois Mae Green in Deer Lodge.

Film Credits

Deer Lodge has been a filming location for a number of movies including:

★ Heaven's Gate (1980)

★ Fast-Walking (1982)

★ Runaway Train (1985)

★ Diggstown (1992)

★ F.T.W. (1994)

★ Love Comes to the Executioner (2006)

★ Iron Ridge (2007)

External links

★ Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site

★ Montana State Prison