Three Forks, Gallatin County, Montana Three Forks, Montana Three Forks and the Tobacco Root Mountains Three Forks and the Tobacco Root Mountains Location of Three Forks, Montana Location of Three Forks, Montana Type Montana Incorporated City, Elected Mayor and City Council Three Forks is a town/city in Gallatin County, Montana, United States and is positioned inside the watershed valley fitness of both the Missouri and Mississippi rivers drainage basins and is historically considered the place of birth or start of the Missouri River.

The town/city of Three Forks is titled so because it lies geographically near the point, in close-by Missouri Headwaters State Park, where the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin Rivers converge to form the Missouri River the longest single river in North America, as well as the primary portion of the Missouri-Mississippi River System from the headwaters near Three Forks to its discharge into the Gulf of Mexico.

Three Forks is part of the Bozeman, MT Micropolitan Travel Destination of approximately 100,000 citizens and the greater Bozeman demographic region of approximately 125,000 citizens .

Sacajawea Park, a memorial to Sacajawea, in Three Forks The three rivers, west to east, were titled by Meriwether Lewis in late July 1805 for President Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State James Madison, and Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin which was in the times the genesis of a mild controversy and eventually spawned a undivided day geographical controversy in both cases regarding length comparisons between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

And myself corresponded in opinon with rispect to the impropriety of calling either of these [three] streams the Missouri and accordingly agreed to name them after the President of the United States and the Secretaries of the Treasury and state.

One consequence of their decision to designate, map and name the Jefferson the biggest as a separate tributary river, is that today the Mississippi river can arguably be called longer than the Missouri river because extensive re-channelization of the streambed for hydroelectric power projects has shortened the river while the Mississippi Delta has grown lengthening the rival river.

Honored in Three Forks, the Indian woman Sacagawea is best known as the interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

In 1800, she was captured by the Mennetaree tribe near the present site of Three Forks.

The present-day town/city of Three Forks was established Sept.

Some buildings were moved to the present town/city from "Old Town Three Forks", a mile to the northeast.

Three Forks is positioned at 45 53 29 N 111 33 6 W (45.891334, -111.551532). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.50 square miles (3.88 km2), of which, 1.44 square miles (3.73 km2) is territory and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km2) is water. Three Forks The Bridger Mountains from Three Forks The Bridger Mountains from Three Forks The Bridger Mountains from Three Forks Three Forks There were 785 homeholds of which 31.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.2% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 6.5% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 33.2% were non-families.

There were 686 homeholds out of which 35.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 59.3% were married couples living together, 5.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 31.5% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 28.4% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older.

The City of Three Forks is a Mayor council government form of government in which the City Council is chaired by an propel Mayor.

In recent years Three Forks has increased in size exponentially due to the booming economy of the close-by city of Bozeman.

Area attractions such as Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park have made Three Forks and the encircling area a core for tourism.

Route 287, Three Forks is a stopping point for many travelers.

Also adding to the prosperity of Three Forks are expand businesses, the longest-serving of which is The Three Forks Herald, which was established in a tent the same week Three Forks was established in September 1908.

The Three Forks High School mascot is the Wolves.

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