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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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
Town
Photo: Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Philipsburg is a town in and the county seat of Granite County, Montana, United States. The population was 841 at the 2020 census. The town was named after the famous mining engineer Philip Deidesheimer, who designed and supervised the construction of the ore smelter around which the town originally formed. Philipsburg is situated 2½ miles northwest of Granite.
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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