Montana
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Silver Bow County

Butte

Butte is one of the major towns in , with a population of 35,000. In its heyday between the late 19th century and about 1920, it was one of the largest and most notorious copper boomtowns in the American West, home to hundreds of saloons and a famous red-light district.
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  • Type: City with 34,500 residents
  • Description: consolidated city-county (with Silver Bow County) in Montana, United States
  • Also known as: “Butte City”, “Butte-Silver Bow County”, “Butte, Montana”, and “Butte, MT”
  • Postal codes: 59701-59703, 59707, and 59750
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Copper King Mansion and Butte–Anaconda Historic District.

Museum
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The , also known as the W. A. Clark Mansion, is a 34-room residence of Romanesque Revival Victorian architecture that was built from 1884 to 1888 as the Butte, , residence of William Andrews Clark, one of Montana's three famous Copper Kings.

Protected area
Photo: Geologyguy, Public domain.
The is a National Historic Landmark that spans parts of , Butte and , , United States. It has the most resources of any U.S. National Historic Landmark District.

Protected area
The is a historic house at 1232 East 2nd Street in Butte, Montana, United States. Built about 1923, this modest working-class house was for many years the home of politician Burton K.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Walkerville.

Village
Photo: Cnw427, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in , , United States, that is an enclave of the consolidated city-county of Butte. The population was 639 at the 2020 census.

Butte

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
United Nations Location Code
US BTM
Open location code
85R92F77+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 90641666
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5642934
Wiki­data ID
Q467664
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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: “Butte”
  • Chinese: “巴特”
  • Chinese: “比尤特”
  • Cornish: “Butte, Montana”
  • Cornish: “Butte”
  • Czech: “Butte”
  • Dagbani: “Butte”
  • Danish: “Butte”
  • Dutch: “Butte-Silver Bow”
  • 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: “بوت”
  • Polish: “Butte Silver Bow”
  • 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 (Montana)”
  • Spanish: “Butte”
  • Swedish: “Butte”
  • Tamil: “புட்டே”
  • Tatar: “Бьют”
  • Telugu: “బట్టా”
  • Thai: “บัตต์”
  • Turkish: “Butte, Montana”
  • Turkish: “Butte”
  • Ukrainian: “Б’ют”
  • 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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