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The Havre barns station Location of Havre, Montana Location of Havre, Montana State Montana Havre (/ h v r/ hav- r) is the governmental center of county and biggest town in Montana's Hill County. It is said to be titled after the town/city of Le Havre in France. As of 2015, the U.S.
Enumeration Bureau estimated the city's populace was 9,834. Havre was incorporated in north central Montana in 1893.
A statue of Hill stands near the Havre Amtrak station to memorialize the key contributions his barns has made to Havre's and Montana's history.
Simon Pepin (1840 1914), the "Father of Havre", was born in Quebec and emigrated to Montana in 1863, where he became a contractor, furnishing supplies for the assembly of Fort Custer, Fort Assinniboine, and Fort Maginnis.
Hill assembled the Great Northern Railway athwart northern Montana, he assembled locomotive shops on property Pepin owned at the site of Havre.
Pepin became a primary contributor to Havre's economic expansion through his cattle, real estate, and banking enterprises. Havre is the eighth-largest town/city in Montana, and the biggest city in the Montana section of the Hi-Line.
With the nearest larger city, Great Falls, about 120 miles (190 km) to the south, Havre serves as a medical and market seat for the Montana section of the Hi-Line.
Highway 87 has its northern end at Havre.
The biggest employers are Northern Montana Hospital, Montana State University Northern, and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF).
Throughout much of the twentieth century, BNSF was the most prominent employer in the city, but the business scaled back its workforce in Havre in the 1990s.
When fire finished Havre's company precinct in 1904, legitimate above-ground businesses joined the illicit businesses operating in the underground while the new brick buildings were assembled in the streets above.
The underground area, now designated "Havre Beneath the Streets", presently operates as a tourist attraction. The Wahkpa Chu'gn buffalo jump, or bison kill, is positioned behind the Holiday Village Shopping Center near the northwest corner of Havre.
The buffalo jump is positioned at the southern edge of the Havre Badlands, a badlands formation that runs alongside the Milk River to the west of the city.
Hill County Courthouse in downtown Havre Six miles (9.7 km) southwest of Havre is Fort Assinniboine, which served as one of Montana's principal military posts from 1879 through the Prohibition era.
The fort was one of many used by the United States to protect against potential attacks from Native Americans and to block incursions from Canada.
Also near Havre is the Bear's Paw Battlefield site of the Battle of Bear Paw, where the Nez Perce were attacked and defeated by the U.S.
Havre is positioned at 48 33 N 109 41 W (48.5454, -109.6775). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.28 square miles (8.50 km2), all of it land. Havre experiences a semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk) with long, cold, dry winters and hot summers with cool evenings.
Winter weather can vary greatly from brutal cold when Arctic air moves in from Canada, to temperatures far above 32 F or 0 C due to chinook winds for instance the coldest month (and only one to never top freezing) of January 1916 averaged 13.3 F or 25.2 C and February 1936 amid a notorious cold wave 12.8 F or 24.9 C, but February 1954 averaged as high as 37.1 F or 2.8 C and January 1919, 34.1 F or 1.2 C. The hottest temperature recorded in Havre is 111 F or 43.9 C on August 5, 1961, and the coldest 57 F or 49.4 C on January 27, 1916.
Climate data for Havre Average high F ( C) 25.5 Average low F ( C) 3.7 As of the census of 2010, there were 9,310 citizens , 3,900 homeholds, and 2,293 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 81.6% White, 0.4% African American, 13.0% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.3% from other competitions, and 4.0% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,900 homeholds of which 30.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.3% were married couples living together, 12.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.5% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.2% were non-families.
33.8% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 12% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.30 and the average family size was 2.98.
The median age in the town/city was 33.9 years.
25.1% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 12.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.5% were from 25 to 44; 25.2% were from 45 to 64; and 13.4% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,621 citizens , 4,015 homeholds, and 2,449 families residing in the city.
There were 4,400 housing units at an average density of 1,270.6 per square mile (491.0/km ).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 87.08% White, 0.11% African American, 9.01% Native American, 0.49% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.51% from other competitions, and 2.78% from two or more competitions.
There were 4,015 homeholds out of which 31.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 45.2% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 39.0% were non-families.
32.6% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 13.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.95.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 13.6% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 14.8% of families and 17.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 22.0% of those under age 18 and 7.8% of those age 65 or over.
The Havre Daily News is regionally available.
The town/city is served by Havre Public Schools, which operates Havre High School, S.U.N.S.
Alternative High School, Havre Middle School, and three elementary schools.
Higher education is provided at the Montana State University-Northern campus.
LORAN-C transmitter Havre Remarks by FDR on a balanced budget on 1937 visit to Havre Wikimedia Commons has media related to Havre, Montana.
Havre Amtrak train station Montana State University Northern United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Population Estimates".
Kari Gorder, Havre History on the Web a b "The History of Havre, Montana".
Havre Chamber of Commerce.
"Montana's Russell Country: Havre Beneath the Streets".
"Climatography of the United States" (PDF).
"Monthly Averages for Havre, MT".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
Havre Public Schools Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Havre.
Havre Chamber of Commerce History of Havre on the Web Montana State University Northern State of Montana's Havre Profile Municipalities and communities of Hill County, Montana, United States State of Montana
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