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Butte, Montana

January 16, 2023

Butte (/bjuːt/ BYOOT) is a consolidated city-county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers 718 square miles (1,860 km2), and, according to the 2020 census, has a population of 34,494, making it Montana's fifth largest city. It is served by Bert Mooney Airport with airport code BTM.

Butte
Consolidated city-county
Butte-Silver Bow
Clockwise, left to right: View of uptown Butte from west; Our Lady of the Rockies; Curtis Music Hall; aerial view of the Berkeley Pit; mine headframe; and the Finlen Hotel.
Flag
Seal
Nickname: 
Butte America
Motto: 
The Richest Hill on Earth
Map of Silver Bow County showing the city of Butte in red and Walkerville in grey
Coordinates: 45°59′56″N 112°31′27″W / 45.99889°N 112.52417°W / 45.99889; -112.52417Coordinates: 45°59′56″N 112°31′27″W / 45.99889°N 112.52417°W / 45.99889; -112.52417
CountryUnited States
StateMontana
CountySilver Bow
Settled1864
Area
[1]
 • Total716.34 sq mi (1,855.32 km2)
 • Land715.76 sq mi (1,853.80 km2)
 • Water0.59 sq mi (1.52 km2)
Elevation
[2]
5,538 ft (1,688 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total34,494
 • Density48.19/sq mi (18.61/km2)
Time zoneUTC−7 (MST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−6 (MDT)
ZIP code
59701, 59702, 59703, 59707, 59750
Area code406
FIPS code30-11397
GNIS feature ID2409651[2]
Websitehttps://www.co.silverbow.mt.us/

Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide, Butte experienced rapid development in the late-nineteenth century, and was Montana's first major industrial city.[3] In its heyday between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it was one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West. Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants, particularly the Irish;[4] as of 2017, Butte has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States.

Butte was also the site of various historical events involving its mining industry and active labor unions and socialist politics, the most famous of which was the labor riot of 1914. Despite the dominance of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Butte was never a company town. Other major events in the city's history include the 1917 Speculator Mine disaster, the largest hard rock mining disaster in world history.

Over the course of its history, Butte's mining and smelting operations generated in excess of $48 billion worth of ore, but also resulted in numerous environmental implications for the city: The upper Clark Fork River, with headwaters at Butte, is the largest Superfund site in the United States, and the city is also home to the Berkeley Pit. In the late-twentieth century, cleanup efforts from the EPA were instated, and the Butte Citizens Technical Environmental Committee was established in 1984. In the 21st century, efforts at interpreting and preserving Butte's heritage are addressing both the town's historical significance and the continuing importance of mining to its economy and culture. The city's Uptown Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States, containing nearly 6,000 contributing properties. The city is also home to Montana Technological University, a public engineering and technical university.

History

Main article: History of Butte, Montana

Early history and immigrants

Prior to Butte's formal establishment in 1864, the area consisted of a mining camp that had developed in the early 1860s.[5] The city is located in the Silver Bow Creek Valley (or Summit Valley), a natural bowl sitting high in the Rockies straddling the Continental Divide,[6] positioned on the southwestern side of a large mass of granite known as the Boulder Batholith, which dates to the Cretaceous era.[7] In 1874, William L. Farlin founded the Asteroid Mine (subsequently known as the Travona); Farlin's founding of the Asteroid Mine attracted a significant number of prospectors seeking gold and silver.[7] The mines attracted workers from Cornwall (England),[8] Ireland, Wales, Lebanon, Canada, Finland, Austria, Italy, China, Montenegro, Mexico, and more.[9] In the ethnic neighborhoods, young men formed gangs to protect their territory and socialize into adult life, including the Irish of Dublin Gulch, the Eastern Europeans of the McQueen Addition, and the Italians of Meaderville.[10][page needed]

 
Butte courthouse and additional buildings, 1885

Among the migrants were many Chinese who set up businesses that created a Chinatown in Butte.[4] The Chinese migrations stopped in 1882 with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act. There was anti-Chinese sentiment in the 1870s and onwards due to racism on the part of the white settlers, exacerbated by economic depression, and in 1895, the chamber of commerce and labor unions started a boycott of Chinese owned businesses. The business owners fought back by suing the unions and winning. The history of the Chinese migrants in Butte is documented in the Mai Wah Museum.[11][12]

The influx of miners gave Butte a reputation as a wide-open town where any vice was obtainable. The city's saloon and red-light district, called the "Line" or "The Copper Block", was centered on Mercury Street, where the elegant bordellos included the famous Dumas Brothel.[13] Behind the brothel was the equally famous Venus Alley, where women plied their trade in small cubicles called "cribs."[13] The red-light district brought miners and other men from all over the region and remained open until 1982 after the closure of the Dumas Brothel; the city's red-light was one of the last such urban districts in the United States.[13] Commercial breweries first opened in Butte in the 1870s, and were a large staple of the city's early economy; they were usually run by German immigrants, including Leopold Schmidt, Henry Mueller, and Henry Muntzer. The breweries were always staffed by union workers. Most ethnic groups in Butte, from Germans and Irish to Italians and various Eastern Europeans, including children, enjoyed the locally brewed lagers, bocks, and other types of beer.[14]

Industrial expansion

 
The Anselmo Mine, one of many in Butte, opened in 1887.

In the late nineteenth century, copper was in great demand because of new technologies such as electric power that required the use of copper. Three industrial magnates fought for control of Butte's mining wealth. These three "Copper Kings" were William A. Clark,[15] Marcus Daly, and F. Augustus Heinze.[7] The Anaconda Copper Mining Company began in 1881 when Marcus Daly bought a small mine named the Anaconda. He was a part-owner, mine manager and engineer of the Alice, a silver mine in Walkerville, a suburb of Butte. While working in the Alice, he noticed significant quantities of high grade copper ore. Daly obtained permission to inspect nearby workings. After Daly's employers, the Walker Brothers, refused to buy the Anaconda, Daly sold his interest in the Alice and bought it himself. Daly asked George Hearst, San Francisco mining magnate, for additional support. Hearst agreed to buy one-fourth of the new company's stock without visiting the site. While mining the silver left in his mine, huge deposits of copper were soon developed and Daly became a copper magnate. When surrounding silver mines "played out" and closed, Daly quietly bought up the neighboring mines, forming a mining company. Daly built a smelter at Anaconda, Montana (a company town) and connected his smelter to Butte by a railway. Anaconda Company eventually owned all the mines on Butte Hill.[16]

Between 1884 and 1888, W.A. Clark constructed the Copper King Mansion in Butte, which became his second residence from his home in New York City.[17] He also, in 1899, purchased the Columbia Gardens, a small park which he developed into a full amusement park, featuring a pavilion, rollercoaster, and a lake for swimming and canoeing. Clark's expansion of the park was intended to "provide a place where children and families could get away from the polluted air of the Butte mining industry."[18] The city's rapid expansion was noted in an 1889 frontier survey: "Butte, Montana, fifteen years ago a small placer-mining village clinging to the mountain side, has now risen to the rank of the first mining camp of the world... [It] is now the most populous city of Montana, numbering twenty-five thousand active, enterprising, prosperous inhabitants."[19] In 1888 alone, mining operations in Butte had generated an "almost inconceivable" output of $23 million (equivalent to $693,662,963 in 2021) worth of ore.[19]

 
Columbia Gardens, an amusement park in Butte, c. 1905

Copper ore mined from the Butte mining district in 1910 alone totaled 284,000,000 pounds (129,000,000 kg); at the time, Butte was the largest producer of copper in North America and rivaled in worldwide metal production only by South Africa.[7] The same year, in excess of 10,000,000 troy ounces (310,000 kg) of silver and 37,000 troy ounces (1,200 kg) of gold were also discovered.[7] The amount of ore produced in the city earned it the nickname "The Richest Hill on Earth."[7] With its large workforce of miners performing in physically dangerous conditions, Butte was the site of active labor union movements, and came to be known as "the Gibraltar of Unionism."[20][21]

By 1885, there were about 1,800 dues-paying members of a general union in Butte. That year the union reorganized as the Butte Miners' Union (BMU), spinning off all non-miners to separate craft unions. Some of these joined the Knights of Labor, and by 1886 the separate organizations came together to form the Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly, with 34 separate unions representing nearly all of the 6,000 workers around Butte.[22] The BMU established branch unions in mining towns like Barker, Castle, Champion, Granite, and Neihart, and extended support to other mining camps hundreds of miles away. In 1892 there was a violent strike in Coeur d'Alene.[23] Although the BMU was experiencing relatively friendly relations with local management, the events in Idaho were disturbing. The BMU not only sent thousands of dollars to support the Idaho miners, they mortgaged their buildings to send more.[24]

There was a growing concern that local unions were vulnerable to the power of Mine Owners' Associations like the one in Coeur d'Alene.[25] In May 1893, about forty delegates from northern hard-rock mining camps met in Butte and established the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), which sought to organize miners throughout the West.[26] The Butte Miners' Union became Local Number One of the new WFM.[27] The WFM won a strike in Cripple Creek, Colorado, the following year, but then in 1896–97 lost another violent strike in Leadville, Colorado, prompting the Montana State Trades and Labor Council to issue a proclamation to organize a new Western labor federation[28] along industrial lines.[29]

Anaconda Copper and civil unrest

See also: Anaconda Copper, Speculator Mine disaster, and Anaconda Road massacre
 
Frank Little, an IWW organizer who was lynched in Butte in 1917

In 1899, Daly joined with William Rockefeller, Henry H. Rogers, and Thomas W. Lawson to organize the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company.[30] Not long after, the company changed its name to Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM). Over the years, Anaconda was owned by assorted larger corporations. In the 1920s, it had a virtual monopoly over the mines in and around Butte.[31] Between approximately 1900 and 1917, Butte also had a strong streak of Socialist politics, even electing Mayor Lewis Duncan on the Socialist ticket in 1911, and again in 1913; Duncan was impeached in 1914 for neglecting duties after a bombing in the city's miners' hall in 1914.[32][33]

It had also established itself as "one of the most solid union cities in America."[34] After 1905, Butte became a hotbed of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or the "Wobblies") organizing.[35] Rivalry between IWW supporters and the WFM locals culminated in the Butte, Montana labor riots of 1914, and resulted in the loss of union recognition by the mine owners.[36] After the dissolution of the Miners' Union, the Anaconda Company attempted to inaugurate programs aimed at enticing employees.[36] However, a number of clashes between laborers, labor organizers, and the Anaconda Company ensued, including the 1917 lynching of IWW executive board officer Frank Little.[37] In 1920, company mine guards gunned down strikers in the Anaconda Road Massacre.[38] Seventeen were shot in the back as they tried to flee, and one man died.[39]

Sparked by a tragic accident more than 2,000 feet (600 m) below the ground on June 8, 1917, a fire in the Granite Mountain mine shaft spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through the labyrinth of tunnels including the connected Speculator Mine.[40] A rescue effort commenced, but carbon monoxide was contaminating the air supply.[41][42] Several men barricaded themselves against bulkheads to save their lives, but many others died in a panic to try to escape.[42] Rescue workers set up a fan to prevent the fire from spreading. This worked for a short time, but when the rescuers tried to use water, the water evaporated, creating steam that burned those trying to escape.[43] Once the fire had been extinguished, recovery of the deceased began; many of the bodies, however, were mutilated beyond recognition, leaving many unidentified.[44] The disaster claimed a total of 168 lives.[45] As of 2017, the event remained the largest hard rock mining accident in history.[46] The Granite Mountain Memorial in Butte commemorates those who died in the accident.[47]

Protests and strikes were initiated after the Speculator Mine disaster, as well as the establishment of the Metal Mine Workers Union; approximately 15,000 workers abandoned their jobs in the wake of the disaster.[48] Between 1914 and 1920, the U.S. National Guard occupied Butte a total of six times to restore civility.[48] In 1917, copper production from the Butte mines peaked and steadily declined thereafter. By WWII, copper production from the ACM's holdings in Chuquicamata, Chile, far exceeded Butte's production.[49][50]

In 1919, women's rights activist Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa became a food inspector for the city, and immediately began pressing for change to questionable practices by several county commissioners who had been keeping the community's cost of living artificially high by, among other things, allowing carloads of perishable foods to rot on unloaded trains at the railroad station.[51][52] She also "was instrumental in getting senate bill No. 19 through the legislature," that year to ensure that 199 tubercular soldiers who had served in World War I would be given "preference of entry to the Galen hospital," and that the legislature would authorize $20,000 in state funds to build additional dormitories at the hospital to make that care possible since hospital admissions were already at capacity.[53] In 1921, she became the first female prohibition inspector in the city.[54]

Open-pit mining era

See also: Berkeley Pit
 
Patrons at a matinee of The Phantom Foe at the American Theater, December 25, 1920
 
1942 view of the city

Disputes between miners' unions and companies continued through the 1920s and 1930s in Butte,[55] with several strikes and protests, one of which lasted for ten months in 1921.[56] On New Year's Eve 1922, protestors attempted to detonate the Hibernian Hall on Main Street with dynamite.[56][57]

Further industrial expansions included the arrival of the first mail plane in the city in 1928, and in 1937, the city's streetcar system was dismantled and replaced with bus lines.[56] After the 1920s, the ACM began to reduce its activities in Butte due to the labor-intensivity of underground mining, as well as competition from other mine holdings in South America.[48] This ultimately led the Anaconda Company to switch its focus in Butte from underground mining to open pit mining.[48]

Since the 1950s, five major developments in the city have occurred: the Anaconda's decision to begin open-pit mining in the mid-1950s,[48] a series of fires in Butte's business district in the 1970s,[58] a debate over whether to relocate the city's historic business district, a new civic leadership, and the end of copper mining in 1983. In response, Butte looked for ways to diversify the economy and provide employment. The legacy of over a century of environmental degradation has, for example, produced some jobs. Environmental cleanup in Butte, designated a Superfund site, has employed hundreds of people.[59]

Thousands of homes were destroyed in the Meaderville suburb and surrounding areas, McQueen and East Butte, to excavate the Berkeley Pit, which opened in 1954[56] by Anaconda Copper.[48] At the time of its opening, the Berkeley Pit was the largest truck-operated open pit copper mine in the United States.[60] The Berkeley Pit grew with time until it began encroaching on the Columbia Gardens.[61] After the Gardens caught fire and burned to the ground in November 1973, the Continental Pit was excavated on the former park site.[62] In 1977, the ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Company) company purchased Anaconda, and only three years later started shutting down mines due to lower metal prices.[63] In 1983,[64] all mining in the Berkeley Pit was suspended. The same year, an organization of low income and unemployed residents of Butte formed to fight for jobs and environmental justice; the Butte Community Union produced a detailed plan for community revitalization and won substantial benefits, including a Montana Supreme Court victory striking down as unconstitutional State elimination of welfare benefits.[65] After mining ceased at the Berkeley Pit, water pumps in nearby mines were also shut down, which resulted in highly acidic water laced with toxic heavy metals filling up the pit.[66]

 
The Berkeley Pit in 1984

Anaconda ceased mining at the Continental Pit in 1983. Montana Resources LLP bought the property and reopened the Continental Pit in 1986.[67] The company ceased mining in 2000, but resumed in the fall of 2003.[68]

From 1880 through 2005, the mines of the Butte district have produced more than 9.6 million metric tons of copper, 2.1 million metric tons of zinc, 1.6 million metric tons of manganese, 381,000 metric tons of lead, 87,000 metric tons of molybdenum, 715 million troy ounces (22,200 t) of silver, and 2.9 million troy ounces (90 t) of gold.[69]

21st century

See also: § Environmental concerns

Fourteen headframes still remain over mine shafts in Butte,[70] and the city still contains thousands of historic commercial and residential buildings from the boom times,[71] which, especially in the Uptown section, give it an old-fashioned appearance, with many commercial buildings not fully occupied; according to a 2016 estimate, there were "hundreds" of unoccupied buildings in Butte, resulting in the city introducing an ordinance to keep record of owners.[72] Preservation efforts of the city's historic buildings began in the late 1990s.[73] As with many industrial cities, tourism and services, especially health care[74] (Butte's St. James Hospital has Southwest Montana's only major trauma center), are rising as primary employers, as well as industrial-sector private companies.[74] Many areas of the city, especially the areas near the old mines, show signs of urban blight but a recent influx of investors and an aggressive campaign to remedy blight has led to a renewed interest in restoring property in Uptown Butte's historic district,[75] which was expanded in 2006 to include parts of Anaconda and is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States with 5,991 contributing properties.[76][77]

A century after the era of intensive mining and smelting, environmental issues remain in areas around the city. Arsenic and heavy metals such as lead are found in high concentrations in some spots affected by old mining, and for a period of time in the 1990s the tap water was unsafe to drink due to poor filtration and decades-old wooden supply pipes. Efforts to improve the water supply have taken place in the past few years, with millions of dollars being invested to upgrade water lines and repair infrastructure. Environmental research and clean-up efforts have contributed to the diversification of the local economy, and signs of vitality, including the introduction of a multimillion-dollar polysilicon manufacturing plant nearby in the 1990s.[78] In the late 1990s, Butte was recognized as an All-America City and as one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Dozen Distinctive Destinations in 2002.[79]

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, Butte-Silver Bow has a total area of 716.82 sq mi (1,856.55 km2), of which 716.25 sq mi (1,855.07 km2) is land and 0.57 sq mi (1.48 km2) (0.08%) is water.[80] The city is situated on the U.S. Continental Divide.[6] Every highway exiting Butte (except westbound I-90) crosses the Divide (eastbound I-90 via Homestake Pass; eastbound MT 2 via Pipestone Pass; northbound I-15 via Elk Park Pass and southbound I-15 via Deer Lodge Pass).[a]

The city was named for a nearby landform, Big Butte, by the early miners.[82][83] Butte's urban landscape is notable for including mining operations set within residential areas, visible in the form of various headframes throughout the city.[84]

Cityscapes

 
View of Butte from Big Butte, 1908
 
View from west side, as seen from the Montana Tech campus, 2012
 
View from uptown Butte facing south on Idaho Street, 2017

Neighborhoods

 
Uptown Butte, 2006

The concentration of wealth in Butte due to its mining history resulted in unique and ornate architectural features[85] amongst its homes and buildings, particularly throughout the uptown section of Butte.[86] Uptown, named after its steep streets,[87] is located on a hillside on the northwestern edge of the town and is characterized by its abundance of lavish Victorian homes and Queen Anne style cottages built in the late-nineteenth century.[86] Several of Butte's "painted ladies"-homes were featured in the 1987 book Daughters of Painted Ladies by Elizabeth Pomada.[86][88] Butte-Silver Bow County has an established Urban Revitalization Agency which works to improve building façades to "enhance and promote the architectural resources of historic uptown Butte."[86] In 2017, a television pilot titled Butteification aired on HGTV, which focused on a couple restoring a Victorian home in Butte.[89]

Butte's South district, situated at a lower elevation below the hillside that comprises northern Butte, has historically been home to working-class neighborhoods.[90] Gold mines originally populated south Butte before it was platted for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1881.[90]

The expansion of the Anaconda Company in the 1960s and 1970s eradicated some of Butte's historic neighborhoods, including the East Side, Dublin Gulch, Meaderville, and Chinatown.[91] The St. Mary's section of Butte, which borders uptown to the east, comprised the Dublin Gulch (an enclave for Irish immigrants) and Corktown neighborhoods.[92] It takes its name from the eponymous Roman Catholic parish located within it,[93] which was historically known as the "miner's church," scheduling masses around miners' shifting schedules.[92] Historically, the St. Mary's section of Butte had a prominent population of Slavic and Finnish immigrants in addition to Irish prior to the mid-twentieth century.[92]

Climate

Butte has a cold semi-arid climate (BSk) under the Köppen Climate Classification. Winters are long and cold, January averaging at 20.0 °F (−6.7 °C), with 30.9 nights falling below 0 °F (−18 °C) 53.8 days failing to top freezing.[94] Summers are short, with very warm days and chilly nights: July averages 63.6 °F (17.6 °C). Like most areas in this part of North America, annual precipitation is low and largely concentrated in the spring months: the wettest month since precipitation records began in 1894 has been June 1913 with 8.86 inches (225 mm), while no precipitation fell in September 1904.[95] The wettest calendar year has been 1909 with 20.55 inches (522 mm) and the driest has been 2021 with 6.49 inches (165 mm). Snowfall is somewhat limited by dryness: the most in one month being 41.5 inches (1,050 mm) in May 1927 and the greatest depth on the ground 27 inches (690 mm) on December 28 and 29, 1996.[96]

The coldest month has been January 1937 with a daily mean temperature of −5.5 °F (−20.8 °C), while the coldest complete winter was 1948–1949 with a three-month mean of 6.69 °F (−14.06 °C) and the mildest 1925–1926 which averaged 29.21 °F (−1.55 °C). July 2007 has been easily the hottest month, with a mean maximum of 88.8 °F (31.6 °C), although the hottest day, reaching 100 °F (38 °C), occurred on July 22, 1931. The coldest temperature recorded was −52 °F (−47 °C) on February 9, 1933, and December 23, 1983.[96]

Climate data for Butte, Montana (Bert Mooney Airport), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1894–present
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 58
(14) 		61
(16) 		69
(21) 		83
(28) 		90
(32) 		97
(36) 		100
(38) 		99
(37) 		96
(36) 		85
(29) 		70
(21) 		66
(19) 		100
(38)
Mean maximum °F (°C) 48.0
(8.9) 		50.1
(10.1) 		60.1
(15.6) 		70.2
(21.2) 		78.9
(26.1) 		86.9
(30.5) 		92.2
(33.4) 		91.3
(32.9) 		86.1
(30.1) 		74.8
(23.8) 		59.2
(15.1) 		47.5
(8.6) 		93.1
(33.9)
Average high °F (°C) 32.1
(0.1) 		34.6
(1.4) 		43.7
(6.5) 		51.1
(10.6) 		61.0
(16.1) 		70.0
(21.1) 		81.3
(27.4) 		79.8
(26.6) 		69.1
(20.6) 		54.3
(12.4) 		40.2
(4.6) 		30.7
(−0.7) 		54.0
(12.2)
Daily mean °F (°C) 20.0
(−6.7) 		22.2
(−5.4) 		31.6
(−0.2) 		38.7
(3.7) 		47.6
(8.7) 		55.5
(13.1) 		63.6
(17.6) 		61.8
(16.6) 		52.8
(11.6) 		40.6
(4.8) 		27.8
(−2.3) 		19.0
(−7.2) 		40.1
(4.5)
Average low °F (°C) 7.9
(−13.4) 		9.8
(−12.3) 		19.4
(−7.0) 		26.4
(−3.1) 		34.3
(1.3) 		41.1
(5.1) 		45.9
(7.7) 		43.9
(6.6) 		36.5
(2.5) 		26.8
(−2.9) 		15.5
(−9.2) 		7.2
(−13.8) 		26.2
(−3.2)
Mean minimum °F (°C) −19.6
(−28.7) 		−15.7
(−26.5) 		−1.3
(−18.5) 		12.4
(−10.9) 		21.5
(−5.8) 		29.7
(−1.3) 		36.3
(2.4) 		33.8
(1.0) 		24.1
(−4.4) 		8.0
(−13.3) 		−8.9
(−22.7) 		−18.2
(−27.9) 		−27.7
(−33.2)
Record low °F (°C) −48
(−44) 		−52
(−47) 		−36
(−38) 		−16
(−27) 		9
(−13) 		22
(−6) 		28
(−2) 		23
(−5) 		3
(−16) 		−23
(−31) 		−42
(−41) 		−52
(−47) 		−52
(−47)
Average precipitation inches (mm) 0.42
(11) 		0.43
(11) 		0.64
(16) 		1.33
(34) 		2.02
(51) 		2.45
(62) 		1.20
(30) 		1.28
(33) 		1.07
(27) 		0.84
(21) 		0.60
(15) 		0.48
(12) 		12.76
(323)
Average snowfall inches (cm) 8.5
(22) 		7.4
(19) 		10.1
(26) 		6.9
(18) 		3.7
(9.4) 		0.5
(1.3) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.1
(0.25) 		1.1
(2.8) 		3.7
(9.4) 		6.6
(17) 		8.3
(21) 		56.9
(146.15)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) 6.8 7.4 8.8 11.2 13.0 13.7 8.7 7.7 6.9 8.2 7.8 7.2 107.4
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) 8.0 7.5 9.1 6.0 2.7 0.4 0.0 0.1 0.8 2.8 6.7 7.8 51.9
Source 1: NOAA [94]
Source 2: National Weather Service (average snowfall/snow days 1894–2001)[96]

Demographics

Historical population
Census Pop. %±
1870241—
18803,3631,295.4%
189010,723218.9%
190030,470184.2%
191039,16528.5%
192041,6116.2%
193039,532−5.0%
194037,081−6.2%
195033,251−10.3%
196027,877−16.2%
197023,368−16.2%
198037,20559.2%
199033,336−10.4%
200033,8921.7%
201033,525−1.1%
202034,4942.9%
source:[97]

U.S. Decennial Census[98][80]

As of the 2020 census, there were 34,494 people and 14,605 households residing in Butte-Silver Bow,[80] giving a population density of 48.2 people per square mile (18.6/km2). Per the US Census' 2019 American Community Survey, the racial makeup of the city was 94.3% White, 0.6% African American, 2.3% Native American, 0.8% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, and 1.9% from two or more races.[80] Hispanic or Latino of any race accounted for 4.6% of the population.[80] Of ethnic groups in Butte, the Irish make up a significant portion, with over one-quarter of the city's population claiming Irish descent, exceeding the percentage of Irish Americans in Boston.[99] Per capita, Butte has the highest percentage of Irish Americans of any city in the United States.[99]

Per the 2019 American Community Survey, the average household size was 2.24 persons, 6.0% of the population is under the age of 5, 20.1% under the age of 18, and 18.7% are 65 years of age or older. 49.3% of residents were female.[80] From 2015–2019, the median income for a household in the city was $45,797, and 17.3% of families were below the poverty line.[80]

While some sources state that Butte had a peak population of nearly 100,000 around 1920, there is no documentation to corroborate this,[21] though it has been reasoned by local journalists based on city directory data.[b] The city's population sank continually to a minimum around 1990 and has stabilized since then; the apparent jump in the 1980 census was due to the city's consolidation with all of Silver Bow County except Walkerville.

Economy

As a mining boomtown, Butte's economy has historically been powered by its copious mining operations which were economical driving forces from the late-nineteenth century into the late-twentieth century. Silver and gold were initially the primary metals mined in Butte, but the abundance of copper in the area would further invigorate the local economy with the advent of electricity, which created a soaring demand for the metal.[7] After World War I, Butte's mining economy experienced a downward trend that continued throughout the twentieth century, until mining operations ceased in 1985 with the closure of the Berkeley Pit.[7] Over the course of its history, the city's mining operations generated over $48 billion worth of ore, making it for a time the richest city in the world.[102]

Much of the city's economy post-millennium has been focused in energy companies (such as the Renewable Energy Corporation and NorthWestern Energy) and healthcare.[74] In 2014, NorthWestern Energy constructed a $25-million facility in uptown Butte.[103]

Government

Local government

In 1977, Butte consolidated with Silver Bow County, becoming a consolidated city-county. It operates under a city-county government. The office of the mayor was eliminated. Mario Micone was the last mayor of Butte. In 1977, Micone became the first Chief Executive of Butte-Silver Bow County.[104][105]

Politics

Politically, Butte has historically been a Democratic stronghold, owing to its union legacy. Likewise, Silver Bow County has historically been one of the strongest Democratic bastions in Montana.[106][107] In 1996, Haley Beaudry became the first Republican to represent Butte in the state legislature since 1950.[106] In 2010, Max Yates was the next Butte Republican elected to the legislature; however, neither Beaudry or Yates were re-elected.[106] In 2014, Butte became the third city in Montana to pass an anti-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBT residents and visitors from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations.[108]

Presidential elections results, 1980–[c]
Presidential elections results[109]
Year Republican Democratic Third parties
2020 41.5% 7,745 55.7% 10,392 2.8% 521
2016 38.8% 6,376 52.4% 8,619 8.9% 1,457
2012 32.4% 5,430 64.8% 10,857 2.8% 469
2008 28.3% 4,818 68.5% 11,676 3.2% 548
2004 39.7% 6,381 57.9% 9,307 2.5% 396
2000 37.7% 6,299 53.7% 8,967 8.6% 1,437
1996 22.1% 3,909 63.4% 11,199 14.5% 2,569
1992 19.2% 3,491 54.9% 9,960 25.9% 4,695
1988 30.2% 5,043 68.5% 11,422 1.3% 222
1984 36.9% 6,637 61.6% 11,095 1.5% 278
1980 37.7% 7,301 50.2% 9,721 12.2% 2,355

Culture

Historical sites and museums

 
Copper King Mansion, built between 1884 and 1888 for magnate William A. Clark
 
A crowd gathers for the Montana Folk Festival in 2015. "The Original" headframe is converted into a stage during the annual festival.

Butte is home to numerous museums and other educational institutions chronicling the city's history. In 2002, Butte was one of only twelve towns in America to be named a Distinctive Destination by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.[79][110] The Butte Silver Bow Public Library, located at 226 W. Broadway in uptown Butte (BSB Library has two branches, one in the mall (South Branch), and is dedicated to preserving the town's history.[111] The Butte library was created in 1894 as "an antidote to the miners' proclivity for drinking, whoring, and gambling," designed to promote middle-class values and to promote an image of Butte as a cultivated city.[112][113] Additionally, the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives stores and provides public access to documents and artifacts from Butte's past.[114]

 
Digenite-pyrite specimen from the old Leonard Mine, display at MBMG Mineral Museum

Several museums and attractions are dedicated to the city's mining history, including the MBMG Mineral Museum (located on the Montana Tech campus), and the World Museum of Mining located at the Orphan Girl mine in uptown Butte, which features "Hell Roarin' Gulch," a mockup of a frontier mining town.[115] The Berkeley Pit, a gigantic former open pit copper mine, is also open to the public for viewing.[66] Other museums are dedicated to preserving cultural elements of Butte: The Dumas Brothel museum, a former brothel, is located in Venus Alley, Butte's former historical red-light district.[116] Another notable site is the Rookwood Speakeasy, a prohibition-era speakeasy which features an underground city,[117] and the Mai Wah Museum, dedicated to preserving Asian heritage in the Rocky Mountains.[118]

The 34-room Copper King Mansion in uptown Butte was constructed in 1884 by William A. Clark, one of the city's three Copper Kings.[87] The mansion functions as a bed-and-breakfast and local museum, and is often reported to be a haunted site.[119] The Art Chateau, at one time home to Clark's son, Charles, was designed in the image of a French château, and contemporarily houses the Butte-Silver Bow Arts Foundation.[120]

Located above Butte on the northeast edge of the city is the Our Lady of the Rockies statue, a 90-foot (27 m) statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, dedicated to women and mothers everywhere, situated on top of the Continental Divide.[121] The statue was air-liftedto the site on December 17, 1985, after six years of construction.[122] Butte is also home to the U.S. High Altitude Speed Skating Center, an outdoor speed-skating rink used as a training location for World Cup skaters.[123]

Throughout uptown and western Butte are over ten underground mine headframes that are remnants from the town's mining industry. These include the Anselmo, the Steward, the Original, the Travona, the Belmont, the Kelly, the Mountain Con, the Lexington, the Bell/Diamond, the Granite Mountain, and the Badger. As part of a community project started around 2004, several headframes were repainted and outlined with LED lights which are illuminated at night.[124]

Events and traditions

 
St. Patrick's Day festival in Butte; the city is home to the largest number of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States.[99]

Butte's longstanding Irish Catholic community (which is the highest per capita of any city in the United States)[99] has been celebrated annually on St. Patrick's Day since 1882. Each year, about 30,000 revelers[125] converge on Butte's historic Uptown district to enjoy the parade led by the Ancient Order of Hibernians.[99]

A larger annual celebration is Evel Knievel Days, held on the last weekend of July, celebrating Evel Knievel (a Butte native).[126] The weekend-long event, held in Uptown Butte, features various stunt performances, sporting competitions, fundraisers, and live music.[126]

Butte is perhaps becoming most renowned for the regional Montana Folk Festival[3] held on the second weekend in July. This event began its run in Butte as the National Folk Festival[3] from 2008 to 2010 and in 2011 made the transition to a free-of-admission music festival.[127] Also held in the summer is Butte's Fourth of July Parade and Fireworks show.[128] In 2008, Barack Obama spent his last Fourth of July before his Presidency campaigning in Butte, taking in the parade with his family, and celebrating his daughter Malia Obama's 10th birthday.[129]

The legacy of the immigrants in Butte lives on in the form of various local cuisine, including the Cornish pasty which was popularized by mine workers who needed something easy to eat in the mines, the povitica—a Slavic nut bread pastry which is a holiday favorite sold in many supermarkets and bakeries in Butte[130]—and the boneless porkchop sandwich.[3][131] The Pekin Noodle Parlor in Uptown is the oldest family-owned, continuously operating Chinese restaurant in the US.[132]

Environmental concerns

Berkeley Pit

 
Because its water contains high concentrations of metals such as copper and zinc, the Berkeley Pit is listed as a federal Superfund site.

After the closure of the Berkeley Pit mining operations in 1982, pipes which pumped groundwater out of the pit were turned off, resulting in the pit slowly filling with groundwater, creating an artificial lake.[66] Only two years later the pit was classified as a Superfund site and an environmental hazard site. The water in the pit is contaminated with various hard metals, such as arsenic, cadmium, and zinc.[66]

It was not until the 1990s that serious efforts to clean up the Berkeley Pit began. The situation gained even more attention after as many as 342 migrating geese chose the pit lake as a resting place, resulting in their deaths.[66] Steps have since been taken to prevent a recurrence, including but not limited to loudspeakers broadcasting sounds to scare off waterfowl. However, in November 2003 the Horseshoe Bend treatment facility went online and began treating and diverting much of the water that would have flowed into the pit.[133] The Berkeley Pit is both a Superfund site and tourist attraction, viewable from an observation deck.[66] Per a 2014 report, scientists believe the Berkeley Pit may reach the critical water level—potentially contaminating Silver Bow Creek—by the year 2023.[133] Beginning in 2019, the Montana Resources and Atlantic Richfield Co. are ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency to begin treating water from the pit, which is to then be discharged into Silver Bow Creek at a rate of 7,000,000 US gallons (26,000,000 L) per day.[133] Nikia Greene, EPA project manager for mine flooding, assured in 2014: "The pit is a giant bathtub. There's a hydraulic gradient into the pit. We will never let the water reach the critical level."[133]

Upper Clark Fork River

The Upper Clark Fork River, with Butte at the headwaters, is America's largest Superfund site, spanning 100 miles (160 km).[134] This area takes in the cities of Butte, Anaconda, and Missoula. The mining and smelting activity in Butte resulted in significant contamination of the Butte Hill as well as downstream and downwind areas. The contaminated land extends along a corridor of 120 miles (190 km) that reaches to Milltown near Missoula and takes in adjacent areas such as the Anaconda smelter site. Contaminated sediment flooded out from abandoned mines was the root cause of the pollution at the headwaters of the Clark Fork River.[135]

Between the upstream city of Butte and the downstream city of Missoula lies the Deer Lodge Valley. By the 1970s, local citizens and agency personnel were increasingly concerned over the toxic effects of arsenic and heavy metals on environment and human health. The Anaconda Copper Mining Corporation (ACM), which merged with the Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO) in 1977, is considered one of the responsible parties in this contamination.[136] Shortly thereafter, in 1983, ARCO ceased mining and smelting operations in the Butte-Anaconda area.[137]

For more than a century, the Anaconda Copper Mining company mined ore from Butte and smelted it in Butte (prior to c. 1920) and in nearby Anaconda. During this time, the Anaconda smelter released up to 40 short tons (36 t) per day of arsenic, 1,700 short tons (1,540 t) per day of sulfur, and great quantities of lead and other heavy metals into the air.[138] In Butte, mine tailings were dumped directly into Silver Bow Creek, creating a 150 miles (240 km) plume of pollution extending down the valley to Milltown Dam on the Clark Fork River just upstream of Missoula. Air and water borne pollution poisoned livestock and agricultural soils throughout the Deer Lodge Valley. Modern environmental clean-up efforts have continued into the twenty-first century.[d]

Sports

Playing for the Pioneer Baseball League, the Butte Copper Kings were first active from 1979–1985, then 1987–2000; as of 2018, the team is known as the Grand Junction Rockies.[140]

Hockey teams from Butte have included the Butte Irish (America West Hockey League) active from 1996 to 2002, after which they became the Wichita Falls Wildcats;[141] and the Butte Roughriders (Northern Pacific Hockey League), active from 2003 to 2011.[142] The Butte Cobras, a Western States Hockey League team, was active from 2014 to 2017.[143] The Cobras then bought the Glacier Nationals franchise in the North American 3 Hockey League (NA3HL) for the 2017–18 season,[144] but the team went dormant prior to playing the season.[145] They eventually began playing in the NA3HL for the 2018–19 season.

The Butte Daredevils (Continental Basketball Association), active from 2006 to 2008, were named for Butte native Evel Knievel.[146]

University teams include the Montana Tech Orediggers, who have competed in the Frontier Conference of the NAIA since the league's founding in 1952. The school hosts men's and women's basketball, football, golf, and women's volleyball.[147]

In October 2020, Butte was awarded a team in the Expedition League to begin play in May 2021.[148]

Transportation

The city is served by the Butte Bus system, which operates within Butte as well as to the Montana Tech campus and nearby Walkerville.[149] Intercity bus service is provided by Jefferson Lines and Salt Lake Express.[150] Bert Mooney Airport has commercial flights on Delta Connection Airlines and Horizon Air.[151]

Butte can be accessed via Interstate 15 from north–south, and Interstate 90 from east–west; the two intersect in Butte, making Butte and Billings the only cities in Montana situated at a juncture of two interstate highways. The city can also be accessed from the south via Montana Highway 2 (Old U.S. Route 10).[152]

The Union Pacific Railroad until 1971 ran the Butte Special from Butte, south to Idaho Falls, then to Salt Lake City. Until 1979 Butte was served by Amtrak's Chicago – Seattle North Coast Hiawatha train.

Education

 
Entrance of Montana Tech. A statue of Marcus Daly by Augustus Saint-Gaudens sits at the entrance.

Public education is provided by Butte Public Schools. Butte High School enrolls around 1,300 students.[153] In correspondence with the Butte Public Schools system, the Butte Education Foundation was established in 2006, which aims to revitalize the public schools in an effort to attract new businesses and residents.[154] In the foundation's mission statement, it is noted that there is a "need to demonstrate a genuine and ongoing commitment to public education. Schools are often the first thing visitors ask about when looking at Butte as a potential new home."[154]

There are several private schools in Butte: The Butte Central Catholic High School operates under the Diocese of Helena,[155] which also operates Butte Central Elementary, a Catholic elementary school.[156] Other private elementary schools include the Silver Bow Montessori School.[157]

The first institute of higher education in Butte was the Montana School of Mines, which was established in 1889, the year of Montana's statehood.[158] The university changed its name to Montana Tech in the mid-twentieth century, and in 1994 became affiliated with the University of Montana.[159] The university specializes in engineering as well as geologic and hydrogeologic research.[158] It was ranked no. 4 by the U.S. News & World Report in 2017 for "Best Regional Colleges in the West."[159] Montana Tech of the University of Montana officially changed its name to Montana Technological University in 2018.[160] Montana Technological University is also home to Highlands College, a two-year-college that grants associate's and trade degrees.[161]

Media

Radio and television

Major AM stations in Butte are KBOW AM 550 (country), KANA 580 (oldies), and KXTL 1370 (oldies and talk radio).[162] FM stations include KAPC 91.3 Montana Public Radio (via the University of Montana); KAAR 92.5 (country); KOPR 94.1 (classic rock), KMBR 95.5 (mainstream rock), KQRV 96.9 (country), KGLM 97.7 (contemporary), KMSM 103.9 (variety), and KBMF 102.5 community radio (classical; via Montana State University).[162]

Butte shares its Neilsen market with nearby Bozeman, with which it forms the 194th largest TV market in the United States. Local television stations include: KXLF (Channel 4), a CBS/CW affiliate, and the oldest broadcast television station in the state of Montana; KTVM (Channel 6), an NBC affiliate with additional programming from nearby KECI-TV in Missoula; KUSM (Channel 9), a PBS affiliate broadcasting out of Montana State University in Bozeman; and KWYB (Channel 19), an ABC/FOX affiliate and last of the "Big Three" networks to come into the market (1992). Prior to this Butte's ABC feeds came from KUSA-TV in Denver, Colorado and FOX from now-defunct Butte station KBTZ.[163]

Newspapers

Butte has one local daily, a weekly paper, as well as several papers from around the state of Montana. The Montana Standard is Butte's daily paper. It was founded in 1928 and is the result of The Butte Miner and the Anaconda Standard merging into one daily paper.[164] The Standard is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Butte Weekly is another local paper.[165]

In popular culture

Film and television

Butte has appeared in numerous films. The first film to notably feature Butte was Evel Knievel (1971), a biopic of Evel Knievel, a Butte native.[166] The 1976 thriller The Killer Inside Me, starring Stacy Keach and Susan Tyrrell and set in small-town Montana, was also partially shot in Butte in September 1974.[167] The city was featured in Runaway Train (1985), shot in part on the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway,[168] and the miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove (1993).[169] Other films shot in Butte include F.T.W. (1994).[170]

The animated film Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996) depicts Butte.[171] In 2004, the Wim Wenders film Don't Come Knocking was set and shot in Butte.[172] In 2015, the SyFy-produced horror film Dead 7, which starred Nick Carter and AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys, as well as Joey Fatone of 'NSync, was shot at the city's Anselmo Mine yards.[173] The 2019 film Juanita is set in Butte.[citation needed]

The city has been subject of several documentary films, including Die Vergessene Stadt: Butte, Montana (1992), a German documentary by Thomas Schadt,[174] and Butte, America (2008), narrated by Gabriel Byrne.[175]

Literary depictions

One of the earliest literary depictions of Butte was by Mary MacLane, a diarist who wrote of her life growing up in the town at the turn of the twentieth century. Her diaries are published under the title I Await the Devil's Coming, and have been credited as a progenitor of confessional writing.[176] Butte answers to the unflattering description of the fictional city of Poisonville in Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, which also alludes to the 1920 Anaconda Road Massacre.[177] The 1980 novel The Butte Polka by Donald McCaig also incorporates the city's mining history into its plot, featuring a character who goes missing from his post at a Butte copper mine.[178]

More contemporary literary depictions of Butte can be found in 1998's Buster Midnight's Cafe by Sandra Dallas,[179] as well as the historical fiction novel Go By Go by Jon A. Jackson, which depicts the 1917 Speculator Mine disaster.[180] Ivan Doig's 2010 novel Work Song and his 2013 novel Sweet Thunder are set in Butte in 1919 and 1920 respectively, after World War I.[181] Confessions of a Shanty Irishman by Michael Corrigan has a chapter-story set in Butte during the Speculator mining disaster and riots.[citation needed]

Novelist Marian Jensen also has published a mystery series named Mining City Mysteries, which is set in Butte and the surrounding region.[182]

Notable people

Main article: List of people from Butte, Montana

Sister cities

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Refer to map of Butte via Google Maps.[81]
  2. ^ While the U.S. Census data shows a population of around 60,000 in 1920, a city directory from 1917 notes Butte's population as being 91,000, while the 1918 directory estimates 93,000. The variance between 1918 and the 1920 census is reflected in the city directories, which fall to 60,000 after 1920.[100] The variance in population reports has been attributed to the city's near-constant fluctuation of visitors, immigrants, and temporary boarders during this time.[101]
  3. ^ Since the city and county did not consolidate until 1977, prior election results reflect the county only and not the city.
  4. ^ As of 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains a database entry detailing the Silver Bow Creek/Butte area's pollution and cleanup efforts.[139]

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Further reading

Pollution and toxic cleanup

Bibliographic materials

  • Barnett, Harold C. Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma (University of North Carolina Press, 1994)
  • Barry, Bridget R. "Toxic Tourism: Promoting the Berkeley Pit and Industrial Heritage in Butte, Montana." (2012). online
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  • Capek, Stella M. 1992. Environmental Justice, Regulation, and the Local Community." International Journal of Health Services 22(4):729–746.
  • Chess, C. and Purcell, K. 1999. Public participation and the environment: Do we know what works? Environmental Science and Technology 33(16): 2685–2692.
  • Church, Thomas W. and Robert T. Nakamura. 1993. Cleaning up the Mess: Implementation Strategies in Superfund (Washington: The Brookings Institution).
  • Covello VT and Mumpower J. 1985 "Risk Analysis and Risk Management: A Historical Perspective," Risk Analysis 5(2): 103–120.
  • Dobb, Edwin. 1999. "Mining the Past." High Country News 31 (11): 1–10.
  • Dobb, Edwin. 1996. "Pennies from Hell: In Montana, the Bill for America's Copper Comes Due." Harper's Magazine (293): 39–54.
  • Langewiesche, William. 2001. "The Profits of Doom—One of the Most Polluted Cities in America Learns to Capitalize on Its Contamination" The Atlantic Monthly (April 2001): 56–62.
  • Levine, Mark. 1996. "As the Snake Did Away with the Geese." Outside Magazine 21 (September 1996): 74–84.
  • Edelstein, Michael R. 2003. Contaminated Communities: Coping with Residential Toxic Exposure Westview Press.
  • Folk, Ellison. "Public Participation in the Superfund Cleanup Process," Ecology Law Quarterly 18 (1991), 173–221.
  • Hird, J. A. 1993. "Environmental Policy and Equity: the case of Superfund." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 12: 323–343.
  • Munday, Pat. 2002. "'A millionaire couldn't buy a piece of water as good:' George Grant and the Conservation of the Big Hole River Watershed." Montana: The Magazine of Western History 52 (2): 20–37.
  • Okrusch, Chad Michael. "Pragmatism and environmental problem-solving: A systematic moral analysis of democratic decision-making in Butte, Montana" (PhD. Diss. University of Oregon, 2010) online
  • Quivik, Fredric. 2004. "Of Tailings, Superfund Litigation, and Historians as Experts: U.S. v. Asarco, et al. (the Bunker Hill Case in Idaho)." The Public Historian 26 (1): 81–104.
  • Probst, K. et al. 2002. "Superfund's Future: What Will It Cost?" Environmental Forum, 19 (2 ): 32–41.
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Web resources

  • United States Environmental Protection Agency. 2005a. Region 8 – Superfund: Citizen's Guide to Superfund. Updated December 27, 2005. www.epa.gov/ Accessed 27Dec.05.
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  • Montana Environmental Information Center. 2005. "Federal Superfund: EPA's Plan for Butte Priority Soils." Available at
  • Murray, C. and D.R. Marmorek. 2004. "Adaptive Management: A science-based approach to managing ecosystems in the face of uncertainty." Prepared for presentation at the Fifth International Conference on Science and Management of Protected Areas: Making Ecosystem Based Management Work, Victoria, British Columbia, May 11–16, 2003. ESSA Technologies, BC, Canada.
  • National Academy of Sciences. 2005. The National Academy of Sciences Report on Superfund and Mining Megasites: Lessons from the Coeur d'Alene River Basin. Available at epa.gov
  • Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. 2005. "Cut and Run: EPA Betrays Another Montana Town—A Tale of Butte, the Largest Superfund Site in the United States." News release (August 18, 2005), , accessed September 15, 2005
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Academic resources

  • Center for Public Environmental Oversight. 2002. "Roundtable on Long-term Management in the Cleanup of Contaminated Sites." Report from a roundtable held in Washington, DC, June 28, 2002, cpeo.org, accessed December 19, 2005.
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  • LeCain, Timothy. 1998. "Moving Mountains: Technology and Environment in Western Copper Mining." PhD Dissertation, University of Delaware.
  • Quivik, Frederic. 1998. "Smoke and Tailings: An Environmental History of Copper Smelting Technologies in Montana, 1880–1930." PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.

Other

  • Mercier, Laurie. 2001. Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City (University of Illinois Press).
  • Parrett, Aaron (2015). Literary Butte: A History in Novels & Film. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-626-19836-4.
  • Toole, K. Ross. 1954. "A History of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company: A Study in the Relationships between a State and its People and a Corporation, 1880–1950." PhD Dissertation, University of California-Los Angeles.

Primary sources

  • Copper Camp: Stories of the world's greatest mining town, Butte, Montana compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Montana.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Butte, Montana.
 
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Butte (Montana)".
 
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Butte.

Local resources

  • City and County of Butte-Silver Bow
  • Butte Oral History Project (University of Montana Archives)
  • Butte Visitors Bureau

Photographs and media


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Butte b juː t BYOOT is a consolidated city county and the county seat of Silver Bow County Montana United States In 1977 the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte Silver Bow The city covers 718 square miles 1 860 km2 and according to the 2020 census has a population of 34 494 making it Montana s fifth largest city It is served by Bert Mooney Airport with airport code BTM ButteConsolidated city countyButte Silver BowClockwise left to right View of uptown Butte from west Our Lady of the Rockies Curtis Music Hall aerial view of the Berkeley Pit mine headframe and the Finlen Hotel FlagSealNickname Butte AmericaMotto The Richest Hill on EarthMap of Silver Bow County showing the city of Butte in red and Walkerville in greyCoordinates 45 59 56 N 112 31 27 W 45 99889 N 112 52417 W 45 99889 112 52417 Coordinates 45 59 56 N 112 31 27 W 45 99889 N 112 52417 W 45 99889 112 52417CountryUnited StatesStateMontanaCountySilver BowSettled1864Area 1 Total716 34 sq mi 1 855 32 km2 Land715 76 sq mi 1 853 80 km2 Water0 59 sq mi 1 52 km2 Elevation 2 5 538 ft 1 688 m Population 2020 Total34 494 Density48 19 sq mi 18 61 km2 Time zoneUTC 7 MST Summer DST UTC 6 MDT ZIP code59701 59702 59703 59707 59750Area code406FIPS code30 11397GNIS feature ID2409651 2 Websitehttps www co silverbow mt us Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide Butte experienced rapid development in the late nineteenth century and was Montana s first major industrial city 3 In its heyday between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants particularly the Irish 4 as of 2017 Butte has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States Butte was also the site of various historical events involving its mining industry and active labor unions and socialist politics the most famous of which was the labor riot of 1914 Despite the dominance of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company Butte was never a company town Other major events in the city s history include the 1917 Speculator Mine disaster the largest hard rock mining disaster in world history Over the course of its history Butte s mining and smelting operations generated in excess of 48 billion worth of ore but also resulted in numerous environmental implications for the city The upper Clark Fork River with headwaters at Butte is the largest Superfund site in the United States and the city is also home to the Berkeley Pit In the late twentieth century cleanup efforts from the EPA were instated and the Butte Citizens Technical Environmental Committee was established in 1984 In the 21st century efforts at interpreting and preserving Butte s heritage are addressing both the town s historical significance and the continuing importance of mining to its economy and culture The city s Uptown Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States containing nearly 6 000 contributing properties The city is also home to Montana Technological University a public engineering and technical university Contents 1 History 1 1 Early history and immigrants 1 2 Industrial expansion 1 3 Anaconda Copper and civil unrest 1 4 Open pit mining era 1 5 21st century 2 Geography 2 1 Cityscapes 2 2 Neighborhoods 2 3 Climate 3 Demographics 4 Economy 5 Government 5 1 Local government 5 2 Politics 6 Culture 6 1 Historical sites and museums 6 2 Events and traditions 7 Environmental concerns 7 1 Berkeley Pit 7 2 Upper Clark Fork River 8 Sports 9 Transportation 10 Education 11 Media 11 1 Radio and television 11 2 Newspapers 12 In popular culture 12 1 Film and television 12 2 Literary depictions 13 Notable people 14 Sister cities 15 See also 16 Notes 17 References 18 Works cited 19 Further reading 19 1 Pollution and toxic cleanup 19 2 Other 19 3 Primary sources 20 External links 20 1 Local resources 20 2 Photographs and mediaHistory EditMain article History of Butte Montana Early history and immigrants Edit Prior to Butte s formal establishment in 1864 the area consisted of a mining camp that had developed in the early 1860s 5 The city is located in the Silver Bow Creek Valley or Summit Valley a natural bowl sitting high in the Rockies straddling the Continental Divide 6 positioned on the southwestern side of a large mass of granite known as the Boulder Batholith which dates to the Cretaceous era 7 In 1874 William L Farlin founded the Asteroid Mine subsequently known as the Travona Farlin s founding of the Asteroid Mine attracted a significant number of prospectors seeking gold and silver 7 The mines attracted workers from Cornwall England 8 Ireland Wales Lebanon Canada Finland Austria Italy China Montenegro Mexico and more 9 In the ethnic neighborhoods young men formed gangs to protect their territory and socialize into adult life including the Irish of Dublin Gulch the Eastern Europeans of the McQueen Addition and the Italians of Meaderville 10 page needed Butte courthouse and additional buildings 1885 Among the migrants were many Chinese who set up businesses that created a Chinatown in Butte 4 The Chinese migrations stopped in 1882 with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act There was anti Chinese sentiment in the 1870s and onwards due to racism on the part of the white settlers exacerbated by economic depression and in 1895 the chamber of commerce and labor unions started a boycott of Chinese owned businesses The business owners fought back by suing the unions and winning The history of the Chinese migrants in Butte is documented in the Mai Wah Museum 11 12 The influx of miners gave Butte a reputation as a wide open town where any vice was obtainable The city s saloon and red light district called the Line or The Copper Block was centered on Mercury Street where the elegant bordellos included the famous Dumas Brothel 13 Behind the brothel was the equally famous Venus Alley where women plied their trade in small cubicles called cribs 13 The red light district brought miners and other men from all over the region and remained open until 1982 after the closure of the Dumas Brothel the city s red light was one of the last such urban districts in the United States 13 Commercial breweries first opened in Butte in the 1870s and were a large staple of the city s early economy they were usually run by German immigrants including Leopold Schmidt Henry Mueller and Henry Muntzer The breweries were always staffed by union workers Most ethnic groups in Butte from Germans and Irish to Italians and various Eastern Europeans including children enjoyed the locally brewed lagers bocks and other types of beer 14 Industrial expansion Edit The Anselmo Mine one of many in Butte opened in 1887 In the late nineteenth century copper was in great demand because of new technologies such as electric power that required the use of copper Three industrial magnates fought for control of Butte s mining wealth These three Copper Kings were William A Clark 15 Marcus Daly and F Augustus Heinze 7 The Anaconda Copper Mining Company began in 1881 when Marcus Daly bought a small mine named the Anaconda He was a part owner mine manager and engineer of the Alice a silver mine in Walkerville a suburb of Butte While working in the Alice he noticed significant quantities of high grade copper ore Daly obtained permission to inspect nearby workings After Daly s employers the Walker Brothers refused to buy the Anaconda Daly sold his interest in the Alice and bought it himself Daly asked George Hearst San Francisco mining magnate for additional support Hearst agreed to buy one fourth of the new company s stock without visiting the site While mining the silver left in his mine huge deposits of copper were soon developed and Daly became a copper magnate When surrounding silver mines played out and closed Daly quietly bought up the neighboring mines forming a mining company Daly built a smelter at Anaconda Montana a company town and connected his smelter to Butte by a railway Anaconda Company eventually owned all the mines on Butte Hill 16 Between 1884 and 1888 W A Clark constructed the Copper King Mansion in Butte which became his second residence from his home in New York City 17 He also in 1899 purchased the Columbia Gardens a small park which he developed into a full amusement park featuring a pavilion rollercoaster and a lake for swimming and canoeing Clark s expansion of the park was intended to provide a place where children and families could get away from the polluted air of the Butte mining industry 18 The city s rapid expansion was noted in an 1889 frontier survey Butte Montana fifteen years ago a small placer mining village clinging to the mountain side has now risen to the rank of the first mining camp of the world It is now the most populous city of Montana numbering twenty five thousand active enterprising prosperous inhabitants 19 In 1888 alone mining operations in Butte had generated an almost inconceivable output of 23 million equivalent to 693 662 963 in 2021 worth of ore 19 Columbia Gardens an amusement park in Butte c 1905 Copper ore mined from the Butte mining district in 1910 alone totaled 284 000 000 pounds 129 000 000 kg at the time Butte was the largest producer of copper in North America and rivaled in worldwide metal production only by South Africa 7 The same year in excess of 10 000 000 troy ounces 310 000 kg of silver and 37 000 troy ounces 1 200 kg of gold were also discovered 7 The amount of ore produced in the city earned it the nickname The Richest Hill on Earth 7 With its large workforce of miners performing in physically dangerous conditions Butte was the site of active labor union movements and came to be known as the Gibraltar of Unionism 20 21 By 1885 there were about 1 800 dues paying members of a general union in Butte That year the union reorganized as the Butte Miners Union BMU spinning off all non miners to separate craft unions Some of these joined the Knights of Labor and by 1886 the separate organizations came together to form the Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly with 34 separate unions representing nearly all of the 6 000 workers around Butte 22 The BMU established branch unions in mining towns like Barker Castle Champion Granite and Neihart and extended support to other mining camps hundreds of miles away In 1892 there was a violent strike in Coeur d Alene 23 Although the BMU was experiencing relatively friendly relations with local management the events in Idaho were disturbing The BMU not only sent thousands of dollars to support the Idaho miners they mortgaged their buildings to send more 24 There was a growing concern that local unions were vulnerable to the power of Mine Owners Associations like the one in Coeur d Alene 25 In May 1893 about forty delegates from northern hard rock mining camps met in Butte and established the Western Federation of Miners WFM which sought to organize miners throughout the West 26 The Butte Miners Union became Local Number One of the new WFM 27 The WFM won a strike in Cripple Creek Colorado the following year but then in 1896 97 lost another violent strike in Leadville Colorado prompting the Montana State Trades and Labor Council to issue a proclamation to organize a new Western labor federation 28 along industrial lines 29 Anaconda Copper and civil unrest Edit See also Anaconda Copper Speculator Mine disaster and Anaconda Road massacre Frank Little an IWW organizer who was lynched in Butte in 1917 In 1899 Daly joined with William Rockefeller Henry H Rogers and Thomas W Lawson to organize the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company 30 Not long after the company changed its name to Anaconda Copper Mining Company ACM Over the years Anaconda was owned by assorted larger corporations In the 1920s it had a virtual monopoly over the mines in and around Butte 31 Between approximately 1900 and 1917 Butte also had a strong streak of Socialist politics even electing Mayor Lewis Duncan on the Socialist ticket in 1911 and again in 1913 Duncan was impeached in 1914 for neglecting duties after a bombing in the city s miners hall in 1914 32 33 It had also established itself as one of the most solid union cities in America 34 After 1905 Butte became a hotbed of Industrial Workers of the World IWW or the Wobblies organizing 35 Rivalry between IWW supporters and the WFM locals culminated in the Butte Montana labor riots of 1914 and resulted in the loss of union recognition by the mine owners 36 After the dissolution of the Miners Union the Anaconda Company attempted to inaugurate programs aimed at enticing employees 36 However a number of clashes between laborers labor organizers and the Anaconda Company ensued including the 1917 lynching of IWW executive board officer Frank Little 37 In 1920 company mine guards gunned down strikers in the Anaconda Road Massacre 38 Seventeen were shot in the back as they tried to flee and one man died 39 Sparked by a tragic accident more than 2 000 feet 600 m below the ground on June 8 1917 a fire in the Granite Mountain mine shaft spewed flames smoke and poisonous gas through the labyrinth of tunnels including the connected Speculator Mine 40 A rescue effort commenced but carbon monoxide was contaminating the air supply 41 42 Several men barricaded themselves against bulkheads to save their lives but many others died in a panic to try to escape 42 Rescue workers set up a fan to prevent the fire from spreading This worked for a short time but when the rescuers tried to use water the water evaporated creating steam that burned those trying to escape 43 Once the fire had been extinguished recovery of the deceased began many of the bodies however were mutilated beyond recognition leaving many unidentified 44 The disaster claimed a total of 168 lives 45 As of 2017 the event remained the largest hard rock mining accident in history 46 The Granite Mountain Memorial in Butte commemorates those who died in the accident 47 Protests and strikes were initiated after the Speculator Mine disaster as well as the establishment of the Metal Mine Workers Union approximately 15 000 workers abandoned their jobs in the wake of the disaster 48 Between 1914 and 1920 the U S National Guard occupied Butte a total of six times to restore civility 48 In 1917 copper production from the Butte mines peaked and steadily declined thereafter By WWII copper production from the ACM s holdings in Chuquicamata Chile far exceeded Butte s production 49 50 In 1919 women s rights activist Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa became a food inspector for the city and immediately began pressing for change to questionable practices by several county commissioners who had been keeping the community s cost of living artificially high by among other things allowing carloads of perishable foods to rot on unloaded trains at the railroad station 51 52 She also was instrumental in getting senate bill No 19 through the legislature that year to ensure that 199 tubercular soldiers who had served in World War I would be given preference of entry to the Galen hospital and that the legislature would authorize 20 000 in state funds to build additional dormitories at the hospital to make that care possible since hospital admissions were already at capacity 53 In 1921 she became the first female prohibition inspector in the city 54 Open pit mining era Edit See also Berkeley Pit Patrons at a matinee of The Phantom Foe at the American Theater December 25 1920 1942 view of the city Disputes between miners unions and companies continued through the 1920s and 1930s in Butte 55 with several strikes and protests one of which lasted for ten months in 1921 56 On New Year s Eve 1922 protestors attempted to detonate the Hibernian Hall on Main Street with dynamite 56 57 Further industrial expansions included the arrival of the first mail plane in the city in 1928 and in 1937 the city s streetcar system was dismantled and replaced with bus lines 56 After the 1920s the ACM began to reduce its activities in Butte due to the labor intensivity of underground mining as well as competition from other mine holdings in South America 48 This ultimately led the Anaconda Company to switch its focus in Butte from underground mining to open pit mining 48 Since the 1950s five major developments in the city have occurred the Anaconda s decision to begin open pit mining in the mid 1950s 48 a series of fires in Butte s business district in the 1970s 58 a debate over whether to relocate the city s historic business district a new civic leadership and the end of copper mining in 1983 In response Butte looked for ways to diversify the economy and provide employment The legacy of over a century of environmental degradation has for example produced some jobs Environmental cleanup in Butte designated a Superfund site has employed hundreds of people 59 Thousands of homes were destroyed in the Meaderville suburb and surrounding areas McQueen and East Butte to excavate the Berkeley Pit which opened in 1954 56 by Anaconda Copper 48 At the time of its opening the Berkeley Pit was the largest truck operated open pit copper mine in the United States 60 The Berkeley Pit grew with time until it began encroaching on the Columbia Gardens 61 After the Gardens caught fire and burned to the ground in November 1973 the Continental Pit was excavated on the former park site 62 In 1977 the ARCO Atlantic Richfield Company company purchased Anaconda and only three years later started shutting down mines due to lower metal prices 63 In 1983 64 all mining in the Berkeley Pit was suspended The same year an organization of low income and unemployed residents of Butte formed to fight for jobs and environmental justice the Butte Community Union produced a detailed plan for community revitalization and won substantial benefits including a Montana Supreme Court victory striking down as unconstitutional State elimination of welfare benefits 65 After mining ceased at the Berkeley Pit water pumps in nearby mines were also shut down which resulted in highly acidic water laced with toxic heavy metals filling up the pit 66 The Berkeley Pit in 1984 Anaconda ceased mining at the Continental Pit in 1983 Montana Resources LLP bought the property and reopened the Continental Pit in 1986 67 The company ceased mining in 2000 but resumed in the fall of 2003 68 From 1880 through 2005 the mines of the Butte district have produced more than 9 6 million metric tons of copper 2 1 million metric tons of zinc 1 6 million metric tons of manganese 381 000 metric tons of lead 87 000 metric tons of molybdenum 715 million troy ounces 22 200 t of silver and 2 9 million troy ounces 90 t of gold 69 21st century Edit See also Environmental concerns Fourteen headframes still remain over mine shafts in Butte 70 and the city still contains thousands of historic commercial and residential buildings from the boom times 71 which especially in the Uptown section give it an old fashioned appearance with many commercial buildings not fully occupied according to a 2016 estimate there were hundreds of unoccupied buildings in Butte resulting in the city introducing an ordinance to keep record of owners 72 Preservation efforts of the city s historic buildings began in the late 1990s 73 As with many industrial cities tourism and services especially health care 74 Butte s St James Hospital has Southwest Montana s only major trauma center are rising as primary employers as well as industrial sector private companies 74 Many areas of the city especially the areas near the old mines show signs of urban blight but a recent influx of investors and an aggressive campaign to remedy blight has led to a renewed interest in restoring property in Uptown Butte s historic district 75 which was expanded in 2006 to include parts of Anaconda and is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States with 5 991 contributing properties 76 77 A century after the era of intensive mining and smelting environmental issues remain in areas around the city Arsenic and heavy metals such as lead are found in high concentrations in some spots affected by old mining and for a period of time in the 1990s the tap water was unsafe to drink due to poor filtration and decades old wooden supply pipes Efforts to improve the water supply have taken place in the past few years with millions of dollars being invested to upgrade water lines and repair infrastructure Environmental research and clean up efforts have contributed to the diversification of the local economy and signs of vitality including the introduction of a multimillion dollar polysilicon manufacturing plant nearby in the 1990s 78 In the late 1990s Butte was recognized as an All America City and as one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation s Dozen Distinctive Destinations in 2002 79 Geography EditAccording to the United States Census Bureau Butte Silver Bow has a total area of 716 82 sq mi 1 856 55 km2 of which 716 25 sq mi 1 855 07 km2 is land and 0 57 sq mi 1 48 km2 0 08 is water 80 The city is situated on the U S Continental Divide 6 Every highway exiting Butte except westbound I 90 crosses the Divide eastbound I 90 via Homestake Pass eastbound MT 2 via Pipestone Pass northbound I 15 via Elk Park Pass and southbound I 15 via Deer Lodge Pass a The city was named for a nearby landform Big Butte by the early miners 82 83 Butte s urban landscape is notable for including mining operations set within residential areas visible in the form of various headframes throughout the city 84 Cityscapes Edit View of Butte from Big Butte 1908 View from west side as seen from the Montana Tech campus 2012 View from uptown Butte facing south on Idaho Street 2017 Neighborhoods Edit Uptown Butte 2006 The concentration of wealth in Butte due to its mining history resulted in unique and ornate architectural features 85 amongst its homes and buildings particularly throughout the uptown section of Butte 86 Uptown named after its steep streets 87 is located on a hillside on the northwestern edge of the town and is characterized by its abundance of lavish Victorian homes and Queen Anne style cottages built in the late nineteenth century 86 Several of Butte s painted ladies homes were featured in the 1987 book Daughters of Painted Ladies by Elizabeth Pomada 86 88 Butte Silver Bow County has an established Urban Revitalization Agency which works to improve building facades to enhance and promote the architectural resources of historic uptown Butte 86 In 2017 a television pilot titled Butteification aired on HGTV which focused on a couple restoring a Victorian home in Butte 89 Butte s South district situated at a lower elevation below the hillside that comprises northern Butte has historically been home to working class neighborhoods 90 Gold mines originally populated south Butte before it was platted for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1881 90 The expansion of the Anaconda Company in the 1960s and 1970s eradicated some of Butte s historic neighborhoods including the East Side Dublin Gulch Meaderville and Chinatown 91 The St Mary s section of Butte which borders uptown to the east comprised the Dublin Gulch an enclave for Irish immigrants and Corktown neighborhoods 92 It takes its name from the eponymous Roman Catholic parish located within it 93 which was historically known as the miner s church scheduling masses around miners shifting schedules 92 Historically the St Mary s section of Butte had a prominent population of Slavic and Finnish immigrants in addition to Irish prior to the mid twentieth century 92 Climate Edit Butte has a cold semi arid climate BSk under the Koppen Climate Classification Winters are long and cold January averaging at 20 0 F 6 7 C with 30 9 nights falling below 0 F 18 C 53 8 days failing to top freezing 94 Summers are short with very warm days and chilly nights July averages 63 6 F 17 6 C Like most areas in this part of North America annual precipitation is low and largely concentrated in the spring months the wettest month since precipitation records began in 1894 has been June 1913 with 8 86 inches 225 mm while no precipitation fell in September 1904 95 The wettest calendar year has been 1909 with 20 55 inches 522 mm and the driest has been 2021 with 6 49 inches 165 mm Snowfall is somewhat limited by dryness the most in one month being 41 5 inches 1 050 mm in May 1927 and the greatest depth on the ground 27 inches 690 mm on December 28 and 29 1996 96 The coldest month has been January 1937 with a daily mean temperature of 5 5 F 20 8 C while the coldest complete winter was 1948 1949 with a three month mean of 6 69 F 14 06 C and the mildest 1925 1926 which averaged 29 21 F 1 55 C July 2007 has been easily the hottest month with a mean maximum of 88 8 F 31 6 C although the hottest day reaching 100 F 38 C occurred on July 22 1931 The coldest temperature recorded was 52 F 47 C on February 9 1933 and December 23 1983 96 Climate data for Butte Montana Bert Mooney Airport 1991 2020 normals extremes 1894 presentMonth Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high F C 58 14 61 16 69 21 83 28 90 32 97 36 100 38 99 37 96 36 85 29 70 21 66 19 100 38 Mean maximum F C 48 0 8 9 50 1 10 1 60 1 15 6 70 2 21 2 78 9 26 1 86 9 30 5 92 2 33 4 91 3 32 9 86 1 30 1 74 8 23 8 59 2 15 1 47 5 8 6 93 1 33 9 Average high F C 32 1 0 1 34 6 1 4 43 7 6 5 51 1 10 6 61 0 16 1 70 0 21 1 81 3 27 4 79 8 26 6 69 1 20 6 54 3 12 4 40 2 4 6 30 7 0 7 54 0 12 2 Daily mean F C 20 0 6 7 22 2 5 4 31 6 0 2 38 7 3 7 47 6 8 7 55 5 13 1 63 6 17 6 61 8 16 6 52 8 11 6 40 6 4 8 27 8 2 3 19 0 7 2 40 1 4 5 Average low F C 7 9 13 4 9 8 12 3 19 4 7 0 26 4 3 1 34 3 1 3 41 1 5 1 45 9 7 7 43 9 6 6 36 5 2 5 26 8 2 9 15 5 9 2 7 2 13 8 26 2 3 2 Mean minimum F C 19 6 28 7 15 7 26 5 1 3 18 5 12 4 10 9 21 5 5 8 29 7 1 3 36 3 2 4 33 8 1 0 24 1 4 4 8 0 13 3 8 9 22 7 18 2 27 9 27 7 33 2 Record low F C 48 44 52 47 36 38 16 27 9 13 22 6 28 2 23 5 3 16 23 31 42 41 52 47 52 47 Average precipitation inches mm 0 42 11 0 43 11 0 64 16 1 33 34 2 02 51 2 45 62 1 20 30 1 28 33 1 07 27 0 84 21 0 60 15 0 48 12 12 76 323 Average snowfall inches cm 8 5 22 7 4 19 10 1 26 6 9 18 3 7 9 4 0 5 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 25 1 1 2 8 3 7 9 4 6 6 17 8 3 21 56 9 146 15 Average precipitation days 0 01 in 6 8 7 4 8 8 11 2 13 0 13 7 8 7 7 7 6 9 8 2 7 8 7 2 107 4Average snowy days 0 1 in 8 0 7 5 9 1 6 0 2 7 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 8 2 8 6 7 7 8 51 9Source 1 NOAA 94 Source 2 National Weather Service average snowfall snow days 1894 2001 96 Demographics EditHistorical populationCensus Pop 1870241 18803 3631 295 4 189010 723218 9 190030 470184 2 191039 16528 5 192041 6116 2 193039 532 5 0 194037 081 6 2 195033 251 10 3 196027 877 16 2 197023 368 16 2 198037 20559 2 199033 336 10 4 200033 8921 7 201033 525 1 1 202034 4942 9 source 97 U S Decennial Census 98 80 As of the 2020 census there were 34 494 people and 14 605 households residing in Butte Silver Bow 80 giving a population density of 48 2 people per square mile 18 6 km2 Per the US Census 2019 American Community Survey the racial makeup of the city was 94 3 White 0 6 African American 2 3 Native American 0 8 Asian 0 0 Pacific Islander and 1 9 from two or more races 80 Hispanic or Latino of any race accounted for 4 6 of the population 80 Of ethnic groups in Butte the Irish make up a significant portion with over one quarter of the city s population claiming Irish descent exceeding the percentage of Irish Americans in Boston 99 Per capita Butte has the highest percentage of Irish Americans of any city in the United States 99 Per the 2019 American Community Survey the average household size was 2 24 persons 6 0 of the population is under the age of 5 20 1 under the age of 18 and 18 7 are 65 years of age or older 49 3 of residents were female 80 From 2015 2019 the median income for a household in the city was 45 797 and 17 3 of families were below the poverty line 80 While some sources state that Butte had a peak population of nearly 100 000 around 1920 there is no documentation to corroborate this 21 though it has been reasoned by local journalists based on city directory data b The city s population sank continually to a minimum around 1990 and has stabilized since then the apparent jump in the 1980 census was due to the city s consolidation with all of Silver Bow County except Walkerville Economy EditAs a mining boomtown Butte s economy has historically been powered by its copious mining operations which were economical driving forces from the late nineteenth century into the late twentieth century Silver and gold were initially the primary metals mined in Butte but the abundance of copper in the area would further invigorate the local economy with the advent of electricity which created a soaring demand for the metal 7 After World War I Butte s mining economy experienced a downward trend that continued throughout the twentieth century until mining operations ceased in 1985 with the closure of the Berkeley Pit 7 Over the course of its history the city s mining operations generated over 48 billion worth of ore making it for a time the richest city in the world 102 Much of the city s economy post millennium has been focused in energy companies such as the Renewable Energy Corporation and NorthWestern Energy and healthcare 74 In 2014 NorthWestern Energy constructed a 25 million facility in uptown Butte 103 Government Edit Mike Mansfield Federal Building and U S Courthouse in Butte Local government Edit In 1977 Butte consolidated with Silver Bow County becoming a consolidated city county It operates under a city county government The office of the mayor was eliminated Mario Micone was the last mayor of Butte In 1977 Micone became the first Chief Executive of Butte Silver Bow County 104 105 Politics Edit Politically Butte has historically been a Democratic stronghold owing to its union legacy Likewise Silver Bow County has historically been one of the strongest Democratic bastions in Montana 106 107 In 1996 Haley Beaudry became the first Republican to represent Butte in the state legislature since 1950 106 In 2010 Max Yates was the next Butte Republican elected to the legislature however neither Beaudry or Yates were re elected 106 In 2014 Butte became the third city in Montana to pass an anti discrimination ordinance protecting LGBT residents and visitors from discrimination in employment housing and public accommodations 108 Presidential elections results 1980 c Presidential elections results 109 Year Republican Democratic Third parties2020 41 5 7 745 55 7 10 392 2 8 5212016 38 8 6 376 52 4 8 619 8 9 1 4572012 32 4 5 430 64 8 10 857 2 8 4692008 28 3 4 818 68 5 11 676 3 2 5482004 39 7 6 381 57 9 9 307 2 5 3962000 37 7 6 299 53 7 8 967 8 6 1 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promote middle class values and to promote an image of Butte as a cultivated city 112 113 Additionally the Butte Silver Bow Public Archives stores and provides public access to documents and artifacts from Butte s past 114 Digenite pyrite specimen from the old Leonard Mine display at MBMG Mineral Museum Several museums and attractions are dedicated to the city s mining history including the MBMG Mineral Museum located on the Montana Tech campus and the World Museum of Mining located at the Orphan Girl mine in uptown Butte which features Hell Roarin Gulch a mockup of a frontier mining town 115 The Berkeley Pit a gigantic former open pit copper mine is also open to the public for viewing 66 Other museums are dedicated to preserving cultural elements of Butte The Dumas Brothel museum a former brothel is located in Venus Alley Butte s former historical red light district 116 Another notable site is the Rookwood Speakeasy a prohibition era speakeasy which features an underground city 117 and the Mai Wah Museum dedicated to preserving Asian heritage in the Rocky Mountains 118 The 34 room Copper King Mansion in uptown Butte was constructed in 1884 by William A Clark one of the city s three Copper Kings 87 The mansion functions as a bed and breakfast and local museum and is often reported to be a haunted site 119 The Art Chateau at one time home to Clark s son Charles was designed in the image of a French chateau and contemporarily houses the Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation 120 Located above Butte on the northeast edge of the city is the Our Lady of the Rockies statue a 90 foot 27 m statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary dedicated to women and mothers everywhere situated on top of the Continental Divide 121 The statue was air liftedto the site on December 17 1985 after six years of construction 122 Butte is also home to the U S High Altitude Speed Skating Center an outdoor speed skating rink used as a training location for World Cup skaters 123 Throughout uptown and western Butte are over ten underground mine headframes that are remnants from the town s mining industry These include the Anselmo the Steward the Original the Travona the Belmont the Kelly the Mountain Con the Lexington the Bell Diamond the Granite Mountain and the Badger As part of a community project started around 2004 several headframes were repainted and outlined with LED lights which are illuminated at night 124 Events and traditions Edit St Patrick s Day festival in Butte the city is home to the largest number of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States 99 Butte s longstanding Irish Catholic community which is the highest per capita of any city in the United States 99 has been celebrated annually on St Patrick s Day since 1882 Each year about 30 000 revelers 125 converge on Butte s historic Uptown district to enjoy the parade led by the Ancient Order of Hibernians 99 A larger annual celebration is Evel Knievel Days held on the last weekend of July celebrating Evel Knievel a Butte native 126 The weekend long event held in Uptown Butte features various stunt performances sporting competitions fundraisers and live music 126 Butte is perhaps becoming most renowned for the regional Montana Folk Festival 3 held on the second weekend in July This event began its run in Butte as the National Folk Festival 3 from 2008 to 2010 and in 2011 made the transition to a free of admission music festival 127 Also held in the summer is Butte s Fourth of July Parade and Fireworks show 128 In 2008 Barack Obama spent his last Fourth of July before his Presidency campaigning in Butte taking in the parade with his family and celebrating his daughter Malia Obama s 10th birthday 129 The legacy of the immigrants in Butte lives on in the form of various local cuisine including the Cornish pasty which was popularized by mine workers who needed something easy to eat in the mines the povitica a Slavic nut bread pastry which is a holiday favorite sold in many supermarkets and bakeries in Butte 130 and the boneless porkchop sandwich 3 131 The Pekin Noodle Parlor in Uptown is the oldest family owned continuously operating Chinese restaurant in the US 132 Environmental concerns EditBerkeley Pit Edit Because its water contains high concentrations of metals such as copper and zinc the Berkeley Pit is listed as a federal Superfund site After the closure of the Berkeley Pit mining operations in 1982 pipes which pumped groundwater out of the pit were turned off resulting in the pit slowly filling with groundwater creating an artificial lake 66 Only two years later the pit was classified as a Superfund site and an environmental hazard site The water in the pit is contaminated with various hard metals such as arsenic cadmium and zinc 66 It was not until the 1990s that serious efforts to clean up the Berkeley Pit began The situation gained even more attention after as many as 342 migrating geese chose the pit lake as a resting place resulting in their deaths 66 Steps have since been taken to prevent a recurrence including but not limited to loudspeakers broadcasting sounds to scare off waterfowl However in November 2003 the Horseshoe Bend treatment facility went online and began treating and diverting much of the water that would have flowed into the pit 133 The Berkeley Pit is both a Superfund site and tourist attraction viewable from an observation deck 66 Per a 2014 report scientists believe the Berkeley Pit may reach the critical water level potentially contaminating Silver Bow Creek by the year 2023 133 Beginning in 2019 the Montana Resources and Atlantic Richfield Co are ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency to begin treating water from the pit which is to then be discharged into Silver Bow Creek at a rate of 7 000 000 US gallons 26 000 000 L per day 133 Nikia Greene EPA project manager for mine flooding assured in 2014 The pit is a giant bathtub There s a hydraulic gradient into the pit We will never let the water reach the critical level 133 Upper Clark Fork River Edit The Upper Clark Fork River with Butte at the headwaters is America s largest Superfund site spanning 100 miles 160 km 134 This area takes in the cities of Butte Anaconda and Missoula The mining and smelting activity in Butte resulted in significant contamination of the Butte Hill as well as downstream and downwind areas The contaminated land extends along a corridor of 120 miles 190 km that reaches to Milltown near Missoula and takes in adjacent areas such as the Anaconda smelter site Contaminated sediment flooded out from abandoned mines was the root cause of the pollution at the headwaters of the Clark Fork River 135 Between the upstream city of Butte and the downstream city of Missoula lies the Deer Lodge Valley By the 1970s local citizens and agency personnel were increasingly concerned over the toxic effects of arsenic and heavy metals on environment and human health The Anaconda Copper Mining Corporation ACM which merged with the Atlantic Richfield Corporation ARCO in 1977 is considered one of the responsible parties in this contamination 136 Shortly thereafter in 1983 ARCO ceased mining and smelting operations in the Butte Anaconda area 137 For more than a century the Anaconda Copper Mining company mined ore from Butte and smelted it in Butte prior to c 1920 and in nearby Anaconda During this time the Anaconda smelter released up to 40 short tons 36 t per day of arsenic 1 700 short tons 1 540 t per day of sulfur and great quantities of lead and other heavy metals into the air 138 In Butte mine tailings were dumped directly into Silver Bow Creek creating a 150 miles 240 km plume of pollution extending down the valley to Milltown Dam on the Clark Fork River just upstream of Missoula Air and water borne pollution poisoned livestock and agricultural soils throughout the Deer Lodge Valley Modern environmental clean up efforts have continued into the twenty first century d Sports EditPlaying for the Pioneer Baseball League the Butte Copper Kings were first active from 1979 1985 then 1987 2000 as of 2018 the team is known as the Grand Junction Rockies 140 Hockey teams from Butte have included the Butte Irish America West Hockey League active from 1996 to 2002 after which they became the Wichita Falls Wildcats 141 and the Butte Roughriders Northern Pacific Hockey League active from 2003 to 2011 142 The Butte Cobras a Western States Hockey League team was active from 2014 to 2017 143 The Cobras then bought the Glacier Nationals franchise in the North American 3 Hockey League NA3HL for the 2017 18 season 144 but the team went dormant prior to playing the season 145 They eventually began playing in the NA3HL for the 2018 19 season The Butte Daredevils Continental Basketball Association active from 2006 to 2008 were named for Butte native Evel Knievel 146 University teams include the Montana Tech Orediggers who have competed in the Frontier Conference of the NAIA since the league s founding in 1952 The school hosts men s and women s basketball football golf and women s volleyball 147 In October 2020 Butte was awarded a team in the Expedition League to begin play in May 2021 148 Transportation EditThe city is served by the Butte Bus system which operates within Butte as well as to the Montana Tech campus and nearby Walkerville 149 Intercity bus service is provided by Jefferson Lines and Salt Lake Express 150 Bert Mooney Airport has commercial flights on Delta Connection Airlines and Horizon Air 151 Butte can be accessed via Interstate 15 from north south and Interstate 90 from east west the two intersect in Butte making Butte and Billings the only cities in Montana situated at a juncture of two interstate highways The city can also be accessed from the south via Montana Highway 2 Old U S Route 10 152 The Union Pacific Railroad until 1971 ran the Butte Special from Butte south to Idaho Falls then to Salt Lake City Until 1979 Butte was served by Amtrak s Chicago Seattle North Coast Hiawatha train Education Edit Entrance of Montana Tech A statue of Marcus Daly by Augustus Saint Gaudens sits at the entrance Public education is provided by Butte Public Schools Butte High School enrolls around 1 300 students 153 In correspondence with the Butte Public Schools system the Butte Education Foundation was established in 2006 which aims to revitalize the public schools in an effort to attract new businesses and residents 154 In the foundation s mission statement it is noted that there is a need to demonstrate a genuine and ongoing commitment to public education Schools are often the first thing visitors ask about when looking at Butte as a potential new home 154 There are several private schools in Butte The Butte Central Catholic High School operates under the Diocese of Helena 155 which also operates Butte Central Elementary a Catholic elementary school 156 Other private elementary schools include the Silver Bow Montessori School 157 The first institute of higher education in Butte was the Montana School of Mines which was established in 1889 the year of Montana s statehood 158 The university changed its name to Montana Tech in the mid twentieth century and in 1994 became affiliated with the University of Montana 159 The university specializes in engineering as well as geologic and hydrogeologic research 158 It was ranked no 4 by the U S News amp World Report in 2017 for Best Regional Colleges in the West 159 Montana Tech of the University of Montana officially changed its name to Montana Technological University in 2018 160 Montana Technological University is also home to Highlands College a two year college that grants associate s and trade degrees 161 Media EditRadio and television Edit Major AM stations in Butte are KBOW AM 550 country KANA 580 oldies and KXTL 1370 oldies and talk radio 162 FM stations include KAPC 91 3 Montana Public Radio via the University of Montana KAAR 92 5 country KOPR 94 1 classic rock KMBR 95 5 mainstream rock KQRV 96 9 country KGLM 97 7 contemporary KMSM 103 9 variety and KBMF 102 5 community radio classical via Montana State University 162 Butte shares its Neilsen market with nearby Bozeman with which it forms the 194th largest TV market in the United States Local television stations include KXLF Channel 4 a CBS CW affiliate and the oldest broadcast television station in the state of Montana KTVM Channel 6 an NBC affiliate with additional programming from nearby KECI TV in Missoula KUSM Channel 9 a PBS affiliate broadcasting out of Montana State University in Bozeman and KWYB Channel 19 an ABC FOX affiliate and last of the Big Three networks to come into the market 1992 Prior to this Butte s ABC feeds came from KUSA TV in Denver Colorado and FOX from now defunct Butte station KBTZ 163 Newspapers Edit Butte has one local daily a weekly paper as well as several papers from around the state of Montana The Montana Standard is Butte s daily paper It was founded in 1928 and is the result of The Butte Miner and the Anaconda Standard merging into one daily paper 164 The Standard is owned by Lee Enterprises The Butte Weekly is another local paper 165 In popular culture EditFilm and television Edit Butte has appeared in numerous films The first film to notably feature Butte was Evel Knievel 1971 a biopic of Evel Knievel a Butte native 166 The 1976 thriller The Killer Inside Me starring Stacy Keach and Susan Tyrrell and set in small town Montana was also partially shot in Butte in September 1974 167 The city was featured in Runaway Train 1985 shot in part on the Butte Anaconda and Pacific Railway 168 and the miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove 1993 169 Other films shot in Butte include F T W 1994 170 The animated film Beavis and Butt head Do America 1996 depicts Butte 171 In 2004 the Wim Wenders film Don t Come Knocking was set and shot in Butte 172 In 2015 the SyFy produced horror film Dead 7 which starred Nick Carter and AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys as well as Joey Fatone of NSync was shot at the city s Anselmo Mine yards 173 The 2019 film Juanita is set in Butte citation needed The city has been subject of several documentary films including Die Vergessene Stadt Butte Montana 1992 a German documentary by Thomas Schadt 174 and Butte America 2008 narrated by Gabriel Byrne 175 Literary depictions Edit One of the earliest literary depictions of Butte was by Mary MacLane a diarist who wrote of her life growing up in the town at the turn of the twentieth century Her diaries are published under the title I Await the Devil s Coming and have been credited as a progenitor of confessional writing 176 Butte answers to the unflattering description of the fictional city of Poisonville in Dashiell Hammett s novel Red Harvest which also alludes to the 1920 Anaconda Road Massacre 177 The 1980 novel The Butte Polka by Donald McCaig also incorporates the city s mining history into its plot featuring a character who goes missing from his post at a Butte copper mine 178 More contemporary literary depictions of Butte can be found in 1998 s Buster Midnight s Cafe by Sandra Dallas 179 as well as the historical fiction novel Go By Go by Jon A Jackson which depicts the 1917 Speculator Mine disaster 180 Ivan Doig s 2010 novel Work Song and his 2013 novel Sweet Thunder are set in Butte in 1919 and 1920 respectively after World War I 181 Confessions of a Shanty Irishman by Michael Corrigan has a chapter story set in Butte during the Speculator mining disaster and riots citation needed Novelist Marian Jensen also has published a mystery series named Mining City Mysteries which is set in Butte and the surrounding region 182 Notable people EditMain article List of people from Butte MontanaSister cities EditAltensteig Baden Wurttemberg Germany since 1991 183 Bytom Silesian Voivodeship Poland since 2001 184 See also Edit Montana portalList of municipalities in Montana Anaconda Copper Mine Montana Irish language outside Ireland Melrose Montana Rocker Montana Silver Bow Montana St 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401 30889 6 Ring Trudy Watson Noelle Schellinger Paul eds 2013 1996 The Americas International Dictionary of Historic Places Routledge ISBN 978 1 134 25930 4 Shovers B Fiege M Martin F Quivik F 1991 Butte and Anaconda Revisited An Overview of Early Day Mining and Smelting in Montana Butte Historical Society Klepetko Chapter Society for Industrial Archeology Smith Duane 2008 Rocky Mountain Heartland Colorado Montana and Wyoming in the Twentieth Century University of Arizona Press ISBN 978 0 816 52759 5 Wyckoff William 1995 Postindustrial Butte The Geographical Review 85 4 478 97 doi 10 2307 215921 JSTOR 215921 Further reading EditPollution and toxic cleanup Edit Bibliographic materials Barnett Harold C Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma University of North Carolina Press 1994 Barry Bridget R Toxic Tourism Promoting the Berkeley Pit and Industrial Heritage in Butte Montana 2012 online Bookspan Shelley Junk It or Junket Public Historian 2001 23 2 pp 5 8 in JSTOR Capek Stella M 1992 Environmental Justice Regulation and the Local Community International Journal of Health Services 22 4 729 746 Chess C and Purcell K 1999 Public participation and the environment Do we know what works Environmental Science and Technology 33 16 2685 2692 Church Thomas W and Robert T Nakamura 1993 Cleaning up the Mess Implementation Strategies in Superfund Washington The Brookings Institution Covello VT and Mumpower J 1985 Risk Analysis and Risk Management A Historical Perspective Risk Analysis 5 2 103 120 Dobb Edwin 1999 Mining the Past High Country News 31 11 1 10 Dobb Edwin 1996 Pennies from Hell In Montana the Bill for America s Copper Comes Due Harper s Magazine 293 39 54 Langewiesche William 2001 The Profits of Doom One of the Most Polluted Cities in America Learns to Capitalize on Its Contamination The Atlantic Monthly April 2001 56 62 Levine Mark 1996 As the Snake Did Away with the Geese Outside Magazine 21 September 1996 74 84 Edelstein Michael R 2003 Contaminated Communities Coping with Residential Toxic Exposure Westview Press Folk Ellison Public Participation in the Superfund Cleanup Process Ecology Law Quarterly 18 1991 173 221 Hird J A 1993 Environmental Policy and Equity the case of Superfund Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 12 323 343 Munday Pat 2002 A millionaire couldn t buy a piece of water as good George Grant and the Conservation of the Big Hole River Watershed Montana The Magazine of Western History 52 2 20 37 Okrusch Chad Michael Pragmatism and environmental problem solving A systematic moral analysis of democratic decision making in Butte Montana PhD Diss University of Oregon 2010 online Quivik Fredric 2004 Of Tailings Superfund Litigation and Historians as Experts U S v Asarco et al the Bunker Hill Case in Idaho The Public Historian 26 1 81 104 Probst K et al 2002 Superfund s Future What Will It Cost Environmental Forum 19 2 32 41 Tesh Sylvia 1999 Citizen experts in environmental risk Policy Studies 32 1 39 58 Teske N 2000 A tale of two TAGs Dialogue and democracy in the superfund program American Behavioral Scientist 44 4 664 678 Web resources United States Environmental Protection Agency 2005a Region 8 Superfund Citizen s Guide to Superfund Updated December 27 2005 www epa gov Accessed 27Dec 05 2005b EPA Region 8 Environmental Justice EJ Program Updated March 24 2005 www epa gov region8 ej Accessed 05 Jan 06 2004a Superfund Cleanup Proposal Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit of the Silver Bow Creek Butte Area Superfund Site epa gov accessed December 20 2004 2004b Clark Fork River Record of Decision available at epa gov 2002a Superfund Community Involvement Toolkit EPA 540 K 01 004 2002b Butte Benefits from a 78 Million Cleanup Agreement Available at epa gov 1998 Superfund Community Involvement Handbook and Toolkit Washington DC Office of Emergency and Remedial Response 1996 EPA Superfund Record of Decision R08 96 112 Available at epa gov 1992 Environmental Equity Reducing Risk for All Communities EPA A230 R 92 008 two volumes June 1992 Society for Applied Anthropology 2005 SFAA Project Townsend Case Study Three The Clark Fork Superfund Sites in Western Montana sfaa net accessed November 23 2005 Montana Environmental Information Center 2005 Federal Superfund EPA s Plan for Butte Priority Soils Available at meic org Murray C and D R Marmorek 2004 Adaptive Management A science based approach to managing ecosystems in the face of uncertainty Prepared for presentation at the Fifth International Conference on Science and Management of Protected Areas Making Ecosystem Based Management Work Victoria British Columbia May 11 16 2003 ESSA Technologies BC Canada National Academy of Sciences 2005 The National Academy of Sciences Report on Superfund and Mining Megasites Lessons from the Coeur d Alene River Basin Available at epa gov Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility 2005 Cut and Run EPA Betrays Another Montana Town A Tale of Butte the Largest Superfund Site in the United States News release August 18 2005 peer org accessed September 15 2005 Southland Elizabeth 2003 Megasites Presentation for the NACEPT Superfund Subcommittee www epa gov oswer docs naceptdocs megasites pdf accessed April 22 2005 Academic resources Center for Public Environmental Oversight 2002 Roundtable on Long term Management in the Cleanup of Contaminated Sites Report from a roundtable held in Washington DC June 28 2002 cpeo org accessed December 19 2005 Case Bridgette Dawn The women s protective union Union women activists in a union town 1890 1929 PhD Dissertation Montana State University Bozeman 2004 online Curran Mary E 1996 The Contested Terrain of Butte Montana Social Landscapes of Risk and Resiliency Master s thesis University of Montana LeCain Timothy 1998 Moving Mountains Technology and Environment in Western Copper Mining PhD Dissertation University of Delaware Quivik Frederic 1998 Smoke and Tailings An Environmental History of Copper Smelting Technologies in Montana 1880 1930 PhD Dissertation University of Pennsylvania Other Edit Mercier Laurie 2001 Anaconda Labor Community and Culture in Montana s Smelter City University of Illinois Press Parrett Aaron 2015 Literary Butte A History in Novels amp Film The History Press ISBN 978 1 626 19836 4 Toole K Ross 1954 A History of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company A Study in the Relationships between a State and its People and a Corporation 1880 1950 PhD Dissertation University of California Los Angeles Primary sources Edit Copper Camp Stories of the world s greatest mining town Butte Montana compiled by Workers of the Writers Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Montana External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Butte Montana Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article Butte Montana Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Butte Local resources Edit City and County of Butte Silver Bow Butte Oral History Project University of Montana Archives Butte Visitors BureauPhotographs and media Edit Panoramic zoomable view of Butte Montana 1904 via Library of Congress Hidden Fire The Great Butte Explosion Documentary produced by Montana PBS Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Butte Montana amp oldid 1125835879, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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