Butte
Butte in southwest Montana, "The Richest Hill on Earth" from around 1880 to 1920, was the largest and most notorious copper boom town in the American West, home to hundreds of saloons and a famous red-light district.
- Type: City with 34,500 residents
- Description: consolidated city-county (with Silver Bow County) in Montana, United States
- Also known as: “Butte (Montana)”, “Butte City”, “Butte Silver Bow”, “Butte-Silver Bow County”, “Butte, Montana”, “Butte, MT”, and “巴特”
- Postal codes: 59701-59703, 59707, and 59750
- Neighbors: Helena
Places of Interest
Highlights: Copper King Mansion and Butte–Anaconda Historic District.
Butte–Anaconda Historic District
Protected area
Photo: Geologyguy, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Walkerville.
Butte
- Categories: city in the United States, consolidated city-county, and locality
- Location: Silver Bow County, Southwest Montana, Montana, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
46.0132° or 46° 0′ 47″ north
Longitude
-112.5365° or 112° 32′ 11″ west
Population
34,500
Elevation
5,538 feet (1,688 metres)
IATA airport code
BTM
UN/LOCODE
US BTM
Open location code
85R92F77+79
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Butte” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوتي”
- Basque: “Butte”
- Belarusian: “Б’ют”
- Bengali: “বিউত”
- Breton: “Butte”
- Bulgarian: “Бют”
- Catalan: “Butte-Silver Bow”
- Cebuano: “Butte”
- Chechen: “Бьют”
- Chinese: “比尤特”
- Cornish: “Butte, Montana”
- Cornish: “Butte”
- Czech: “Butte”
- Dagbani: “Butte”
- Danish: “Butte”
- Dutch: “Butte”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوتى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيوت مونتانا”
- Finnish: “Butte”
- French: “Butte”
- Galician: “Butte, Montana”
- Galician: “Butte”
- German: “Butte”
- Gilaki: “بيۊت (مؤنتانا)”
- Gilaki: “بيۊت”
- Greek: “Μπιουτ”
- Gujarati: “બ્યૂટ”
- Haitian: “Butte, Montana”
- Haitian: “Butte”
- Hausa: “Birnin butte”
- Hebrew: “ביוט”
- Hindi: “बट्ट”
- Hungarian: “Butte”
- Indonesian: “Butte, Montana”
- Indonesian: “Butte”
- Interlingua: “Butte”
- Irish: “Butte”
- Italian: “Butte”
- Japanese: “ビュート”
- Kannada: “ಬುತ್ತೆ”
- Kazakh: “Batt-Sïlvér Bow”
- Kazakh: “Батт-Силвэр Боу”
- Kazakh: “باتت-سىيلۆەر بوۋ”
- Kirghiz: “Батт-Силвэр Боу”
- Korean: “뷰트”
- Kotava: “Butte”
- Ladin: “Butte”
- Latvian: “Būte”
- Lithuanian: “Bjutas”
- Lithuanian: “Butė”
- Malagasy: “Butte, Montana”
- Malagasy: “Butte”
- Malay: “Butte”
- Marathi: “ब्यूट्ट”
- Mazanderani: “بوت (مونتانا)”
- Mazanderani: “بوت”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Butte”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Butte”
- Norwegian: “Butte”
- Persian: “بوت-سیلور باو، مونتانا”
- Persian: “بوت-سیلور باو”
- Persian: “بیوت”
- Polish: “Butte”
- Portuguese: “Butte”
- Russian: “Бьютт”
- Serbian: “Бјут-Силвер Боу”
- Serbian: “Бјут”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Butte-Silver Bow, Montana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Butte-Silver Bow”
- Silesian: “Butte”
- Sinhala: “බුටේ”
- Slovak: “Butte”
- Slovenian: “Butte”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوت، مونتانا”
- Spanish: “Butte”
- Swedish: “Butte”
- Tamil: “புட்டே”
- Tatar: “Бьют”
- Telugu: “బట్టా”
- Thai: “บัตต์”
- Turkish: “Butte, Montana”
- Turkish: “Butte”
- Ukrainian: “Б’ютт”
- Ukrainian: “Бютт”
- Urdu: “بوٹ، مونٹانا”
- Urdu: “بوٹ”
- Uzbek: “Butte”
- Venetian: “Butte”
- Vietnamese: “Butte”
- Volapük: “Butte”
- Waray (Philippines): “Butte, Montana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Butte”
- Welsh: “Butte, Montana”
- Welsh: “Butte”
- Western Frisian: “Butte”
- Western Mari: “Бьютт”
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