Granite
Granite is a ghost town in Granite County, Montana, United States, three miles east of the town of Philipsburg. Granite thrived as a silver mining town in the 1890s and is now completely deserted.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: ghost town in Granite County, Montana, United States
- Also known as: “Granite Ghost Town”, “Granite, Montana”, and “Granite, MT”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Philipsburg.
Philipsburg
Photo: Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Philipsburg is a town of about 800 people in southwestern Montana, originally formed around an ore smelter in 1867. The surrounding county is home to more than 24 ghost towns.
Granite
- Categories: ghost town and locality
- Location: Granite, Montana, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
46.31742° or 46° 19′ 3″ northLongitude
-113.24451° or 113° 14′ 40″ westElevation
7,001 feet (2,134 metres)Open location code
85R88Q84+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 150976014OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Portuguese—“Granite” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “格拉尼特”
- Portuguese: “Granite”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Granite State Park and Granite Mountain Mine.
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