Livingston, Montana Livingston, Montana Downtown Livingston Downtown Livingston Location of Livingston, Montana Location of Livingston, Montana State Montana Livingston is a town/city and the governmental center of county of Park County, Montana, United States. Livingston is positioned in southwestern Montana, on the Yellowstone River, north of Yellowstone National Park.
The beginning of the small historical barns and ranching town of Livingston, Montana is a direct result of the Northern Pacific Railway (NPR).
Livingston also became the first gateway town to America's first nationwide park, Yellowstone National Park.
Downstream (the Yellowstone River), approximately 3 miles from present day Livingston, was where an old fisherman titled Amos Benson assembled a log cabin in 1872.
Carver, a man who would turn into a primary small-town businessman and small-town political leader, appeared at the site of present-day Livingston.
This new settlement was called "Clark City" after Heman Clark, the principal contractor for the Northern Pacific from the Missouri westward.
Just southwest of the KPRK, and is now part of Livingston.
Clark City eventually had 6 general stores, 2 hotels, 2 restaurants, 2 watchmakers, 2 wholesale liquor dealers, 2 meat markets, 3 blacksmiths, 1 hardware store, 30 saloons and a populace of 500 citizens .
As Clark City was burgeoning nobody realized that the Northern Pacific had marked on their maps a town called Livingston at the same place.
In November, Livingston received its charter.
That was when they decided that Livingston be positioned a short distance away, and there established a profit of $200,000 for the ones who invested in the surveyed property - those in knowledge of Northern Pacific doings.
Then Clark City inhabitants bought lots to the northwest, in Livingston and moved.
The birth of Livingston was the death of Clark City.
On December 21, 1882 Livingston was incorporated and originally retitled with respect to Johnston Livingston, pioneer Northern Pacific Railway stockholder, director and friend of Northern Pacific Railroad President Henry Villard.
Johnston Livingston was director from 1875 1881 and 1884 1887.
Crawford Livingston Jr., Johnston's nephew is who the name Livingston is more generally credited to.
Often he spoke of Livingston as "his town," and he apparently appreciateed the publicity of supposedly having a town/city named for him.
However the name Livingston has always stood out in the Northern Pacific official family. Livingston is along the Yellowstone River where it bends from north to east towards Billings and in adjacency to Interstate 90.
In July 1806 Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped on the city's present outskirts on the return trip east preparing to descend the Yellowstone River.
Although a small city, Livingston has a number of prominent tourist attractions.
The Livingston Depot, assembled in 1902 after two predecessors, is a restored rail station that today homes a barns exhibition open from May through September.
It had been used as a recording locale for A River Runs Through It, The Horse Whisperer, Rancho Deluxe, Livingston (film) and others.
In 1938, Dan Bailey, an easterly fly-fisherman, established his Dan Bailey's Fly Shop and mail order fly tying company on Park Street where it still resides today. In Livingston is the Fly Fishing Discovery Center, a exhibition directed by the Federation of Fly Fishers. Actors Peter Fonda, Margot Kidder, as well as Saturday Night Live alumnus Rich Hall, musician Ron Strykert, novelist Walter Kirn, and poet Jim Harrison live in the city.
Jimmy Buffett mentions Livingston in multiple songs.
Recently, the town/city has invested in creating attractions and accommodation for tourists visiting amid the Lewis and Clark bicentennial years.
Images of Livingston, Montana Plat of Livingston, 1883 Second Livingston NPRR Depot, 1894 Dan Bailey's Fly Shop in Livingston Panoramic view, Livingston, 1922 Livingston is positioned at 45 39 32 N 110 33 49 W (45.658840, -110.563718), at an altitude of 4,501 feet (1372 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.03 square miles (15.62 km2), of which, 6.02 square miles (15.59 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Climate data for Livingston, Montana Livingston has some of the warmest winters in the state, but the temperature can feel cold because Livingston is also one of the windiest places in the United States, having the 2nd highest average wind speed among airport/AMOS stations from 2000 to 2010. As of the census of 2010, there were 7,044 citizens , 3,356 homeholds, and 1,744 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 96.2% White, 0.1% African American, 0.8% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.6% from other competitions, and 2.0% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,356 homeholds of which 24.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 48.0% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 41.1 years.
21% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 5.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 28.3% were from 25 to 44; 28.9% were from 45 to 64; and 16.2% were 65 years of age or older.
At the 2000 census, there were 6,851 citizens , 3,084 homeholds and 1,751 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 96.39% White, 0.31% African American, 0.98% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 0.60% from other competitions, and 1.23% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,084 homeholds of which 26.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.8% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 43.2% were non-families.
Age distribution was 22.7% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 27.5% from 25 to 44, 23.6% from 45 to 64, and 18.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Historically a barns town/city until the mid-1980s, the town/city today depends decidedly on tourism.
The Federation of Fly Fishers is based in Livingston.
According to Livingston's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top private employers in Park County (the city's website refers to approximately a hundred enhance employees) are: 1 Livingston Health - Care 250 499 8 Livingston Health and Rehabilitation Center 50 99 10 The Livingston Enterprise 20 49 Livingston Enterprise is a small-town daily newspaper, and the Livingston Current (preceded by the Park County Press and Park County Weekly) is a weekly newspaper.
KBMC (FM) 102.1, (Variety), Montana State University-Billings KUSM 9 PBS, Montana State University The town/city of Livingston has appeared in a several films: O'Connor, United States Representative from Montana Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press.
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Livingston, Montana "Average Weather for Livingston, MT - Temperature and Precipitation".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
City of Livingston CAFR Calamity's In Town-The Town Was Livingston, Montana.
Montana's Grandest-Historic Hotels and Resorts of the Treasure State.
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