Deer Lodge, Montana
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{{Distinguish2|[[Deer Lodge County, Montana]]}}
'''Deer Lodge''' is a city in and the [[county seat]] of [[Powell County, Montana|Powell County]], [[Montana]], [[United States]].{{GR|6}} The population was 3,421 at the 2000 census. The city is perhaps best known as the home of the [[Montana State Prison]], a major local employer. The [[Montana State Hospital]] and former state tuberculosis sanitarium are also nearby. Deer Lodge was also once an important railroad town, serving as a division headquarters for the [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad]] ("the Milwaukee Road") before the railroad's local abandonment in 1980.
The current Montana State Prison occupies a campus {{convert|3.5|mi|km|1}} west of town. The former prison site, at the south end of Deer Lodge's Main Street, is now the [[Old Prison Museum (Deer Lodge, Montana)|Old Prison Museum]]. In addition to a former cellblock building, the museum complex includes a theater, antique and automobile museums, and a former [[Milwaukee Road]] "[[Little Joe (electric locomotive)|Little Joe]]" electric locomotive.
Deer Lodge is also the location of [[Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site]], dedicated to the interpretation of the frontier cattle ranching era. This site was the home of [[Conrad Kohrs]], one of the famous "Cattle Kings" of Montana whose land holdings once stretched over a million acres (4,000 km²) of Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta, Canada. The Grant-Kohrs ranch was built in 1862 by Johnny Grant, a Scottish/French/[[Metis]] fur-trader and trapper who encouraged his people to settle in Deer Lodge because of its pleasant climate and large areas of bunch grass prairie, ideal for raising cattle and horses.
Deer Lodge was the site of the [[College of Montana]], the first institution of higher learning in the state.
==Geography==
[[Image:DeerLodge1869.JPG|thumb|left|Deer Lodge, MT in 1869<ref>{{cite book |last=Stout |first=Tom |authorlink=Tom Stout |title=Montana Its Story and Biography--A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Montana and Three Decade of Statehood |publisher=American Historical Society |location=Chicago |year=1921 |pages=808 }}</ref>]]
Deer Lodge is located at {{coor dms|46|23|46|N|112|43|59|W|city}} (46.396183, -112.732922){{GR|1}}.
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of 1.4 [[square mile]]s (3.7 [[km²]]), all of it land.
==Demographics==
As of the [[census]]{{GR|2}} of 2000, there were 3,421 people, 1,442 households, and 911 families residing in the city. The [[population density]] was 2,369.3 people per square mile (917.3/km²). There were 1,593 housing units at an average density of 1,103.3/sq mi (427.1/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 95.67% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.03% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 1.02% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.61% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.61% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 2.05% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 1.84% of the population.
There were 1,442 households out of which 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.7% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 9.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% were non-families. 32.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.93.
In the city the population was spread out with 25.3% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 23.6% from 45 to 64, and 19.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 93.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $29,859, and the median income for a family was $36,108. Males had a median income of $27,903 versus $20,227 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $14,883. About 8.7% of families and 10.9% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 13.3% of those under age 18 and 5.4% of those age 65 or over.
==Notable residents==
*[[John Bozeman]], founder of [[Bozeman, Montana]].
*[[Neal Chase]], a leader of the [[Bahá'ís Under the Provisions of the Covenant]], lives here.
*[[William H. Clagett]], [[U.S. Representative]] from [[Montana Territory]], lawyer.
*[[William Andrews Clark]], United States Senator from Montana, was a banker here.
*[[Eric Funk]], [[Composer]].
*[[Phil Jackson]], [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] coach.
*[[Conrad Kohrs]], cattle rancher.
*[[Jean Parker]], Actress born Lois Mae Green in Deer Lodge.
*[[Patricia Nell Warren]], Writer.
==Film Credits==
Deer Lodge has been a filming location for a number of movies including:
* [[Heaven's Gate (film)|Heaven's Gate]] (1980)
* [[Fast-Walking]] (1982)
* [[Runaway Train (film)|Runaway Train]] (1985)
* [[Diggstown]] (1992)
* [[F.T.W.]] (1994)
* [[Love Comes to the Executioner]] (2006)
* [[Iron Ridge (film)|Iron Ridge]] (2007)
===Trivia===
Deer Lodge is the county seat of Powell County while the neighboring county of Deer Lodge is a consolidated government in conjunction with the city of Anaconda (much like it's neighbor Butte/Silver Bow County). The names come from both being in the Deer Lodge Valley.
===UFO documentary===
In a 2004 documentary titled ''The Secret of Redgate'' by Lynda J. Cowen and [[Jim Marrs]], a number of Deer Lodge residents explain about their experiences with [[extraterrestrial life|extraterrestrial beings]] and the rumours surrounding these events. These occurrences which date back some fifty years took place at a location named ''Redgate'' on the eastside of Deer Lodge.<ref>[http://www.secretsofredgate.com/ Secrets of Redgate website]</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nps.gov/grko/ Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site]
*[http://www.cor.mt.gov/MSP/MontanaStatePrison.asp Montana State Prison]
*[http://www.cfwep.org/ Clark Fork Watershed Education Program]
*[http://www.pcmaf.org/ Old Montana Prison Museums]
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