Wolf Point, Montana "Wolf Point"
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Wolf Point, Montana Roosevelt County Courthouse in Wolf Point Roosevelt County Courthouse in Wolf Point Location of Wolf Point, Montana Location of Wolf Point, Montana Wolf Point is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Roosevelt County, Montana, United States. The populace was 2,621 at the 2010 census. It is the biggest improve on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
Wolf Point is the home of the annual Wild Horse Stampede, held every year amid the second weekend of July.
Wolf Point's Wild Horse Stampede is the earliest rodeo in Montana, and has been called the "Grandaddy of Montana Rodeos". Wolf Point is positioned in north-eastern Montana in the wide, shallow valley of the Missouri River, just below its confluence with Wolf Creek.
Wolf Point is situated on the High Plains of easterly Montana.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 0.88 square miles (2.28 km2), all of it land. Wolf Point experiences a semi-arid steppe climate (BSkw), with generally cold, dry winters and hot summers.
Climate data for Wolf Point, extremes 1974-present In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 31.0% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The town/city of Wolf Point has a mayor-council form of government with a town/city council consisting of eight propel council members two members from each of four wards.
The town/city council determines the policy direction and administers the daily affairs of town/city government.
The mayor appoints, with advice and consent of the council, the town/city attorney, the hybrid position of town/city clerk-treasurer, and the police chief.
Jager assumed the duties of the mayor's office following Golik's death as the then town/city council president and was appointed to the post on March 17, 2008. Mayor Jager was propel to the position in the November 2009 general election. The Wolf Point Public Schools, District No.
Fort Peck Community College period to Wolf Point.
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Wolf Point is served by two weekly newspapers, the Wolf Point Herald-News, and the Poplar, Montana, based Fort Peck Journal.
Wolf Point and Roosevelt County are part of the Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson small-town tv media market (DMA). Broadcast tv can be received, either directly or via translator, from KWSE 4 (PBS), KUMV 8 (NBC), and KXMD 11 (CBS) all based in Williston, North Dakota; and KFBB 5 (ABC/FOX) based in Great Falls, Montana.
Park in Wolf Point The Wolf Point Area Museum provides a glimpse into small-town history.
The Wolf Point Area Historical Society purchased the Hansen Implement building in July, 2007, and after a fund raising campaign opened in the new locale in June, 2010. The historic Lewis and Clark Bridge (Wolf Point Bridge) crosses the Missouri River six miles southeast of the town/city on Montana Highway 13.
In the fictional Marvel Comics Universe the superhero Red Wolf (William Talltrees) was born in a Wolf Point positioned on a Cheyenne Reservation. Scheduled air service at Wolf Point's L.
Route 2, a primary east-west route in the northern tier of states joins Wolf Point with other Hi-Line communities from Washington state to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Montana Highway 25 provides a connection to Montana Highway 13 six miles east of the city.
Montana Highway 13 extends from the Port of Scobey on the Canada United States border in the north to Circle, Montana in the south.
Main article: Wolf Point station A rail crossing in Wolf Point from the Empire Builder Wolf Point is positioned on the Hi-Line of the BNSF Railway and has advanced as a primary shipment point for grain to West Coast and Great Lakes ports.
Wolf Point is served daily westbound and eastbound by Amtrak's Empire Builder, and is the first station stop west of Williston, North Dakota.
Trinity Hospital offers inpatient care, and emergency care in addition to a wide range of other services, and is directed by Northeast Montana Health Services (NEMHS).
NEMHS also operates the Faith Lutheran Home, a 60-bed skilled nursing facility; and the Listerud Rural Health Clinic in Wolf Point. The Chief Redstone Clinic is a facility directed by the Indian Health Service, an agency of the U.S.
It supports a wide range of community needs for the Native American populace in the Wolf Point region on an outpatient basis. "Wolf Point "Wild Horse" Stampede".
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Cities in Roosevelt County, Montana - Cities in Montana - County seats in Montana - Montana populated places on the Missouri River - Populated places established in 1915 - 1915 establishments in Montana
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