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Dawson County was the tenth county organized in Montana Territory. It was created January 15, 1869, four and a half years after Montana Territory was organized. Before the formation of Dawson county, the area was the northern half of the original Big Horn County. Dawson takes its name from Major Andrew Dawson, [3] manager of the Fort Benton ...
Glendive, Montana. / 47.10861°N 104.71056°W / 47.10861; -104.71056. Glendive is a city in and the county seat of Dawson County, Montana, United States, and home to Dawson Community College. [2] Glendive was established by the Northern Pacific Railway when they built the transcontinental railroad across the northern tier of the western ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Montana.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 119 law enforcement agencies employing 3,229 sworn police officers, about 201 for each 100,000 residents.
Makoshika State Park ("ma-KO-sh (ih)kuh" from the Lakota Mako sica, meaning 'bad land' or 'land that is bad') [2] is a nature preserve and public recreation area located on the southeast side of Glendive in Dawson County, Montana. The state park encompasses badlands containing dinosaur fossils and rock from the Hell Creek Formation. [2]
Counties of Montana. This is a list of the counties in the U.S. state of Montana. There are 56 counties in the state. Montana has two consolidated city-counties— Anaconda with Deer Lodge County and Butte with Silver Bow County. The portion of Yellowstone National Park that lies within Montana was not part of any county until 1978, when part ...
Dawson County High School is a public high school in Glendive, Montana the eastern part of Montana known as the Badlands. Notable alumni. Tim Babcock, the 16th Governor of the state of Montana, from 1962 to 1969; Mike Person, an American football guard for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) Notable former faculty
Hagen Site. The Hagen Site, also designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 24DW1, is an archaeological site near Glendive in Dawson County, Montana. The site, excavated in the 1930s, is theorized to represent a rare instance of a settlement from early in the period in which the Crow and Hidatsa Native American tribes separated from one another.
Montana Department of Corrections. 5 S. Last Chance Gulch Helena, MT. The Montana Department of Corrections is a state agency of Montana that operates state prisons and manages community-corrections programs. The agency has its headquarters in Helena.