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History · Floweree

Floweree’s post office opened in 1910, and 73% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1948 on.

1910first post office
0on the National Register
73%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Floweree began

When was Floweree founded?

1910

The Floweree post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 19116 years
Founding year: the first Floweree post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Floweree’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Floweree are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Floweree’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Floweree’s history is told.

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The story so far

Floweree, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Floweree yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Floweree is an unincorporated community in Chouteau County, Montana, United States. Floweree is 18 miles (29 km) west-southwest of Fort Benton. It is off of U.S. Route 87. As of the 2020 census, Floweree had a population of 19. The community is named for Daniel Floweree, a Texas cattle rancher who established his F Triangle Ranch in the area in the late 19th century. Floweree had its own post office from 1910 to 2004 and still has its own ZIP code, 59440.

Its first post office opened in 1910.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Floweree, 1910 to 1974

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1910Post officeThe Floweree post office opens
  3. 1948On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1974Post officeThe Floweree post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Floweree on the map, 1948 to 1965

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Floweree. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Floweree on the 1948 USGS mapFloweree on the 1965 USGS map1948Portage sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Floweree.

Famous people

Famous people close to Floweree

Nobody well known was born in Floweree itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Gerald R. MolenAmerican film producer · b. 1935
William RothAmerican politician · b. 1921
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Denise CurryAmerican basketball player · b. 1959
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R. Gordon WassonAmerican ethnobiologist · b. 1898
Coby KarlAmerican basketball player and coach · b. 1983
Ian MacDonaldAmerican actor · b. 1914
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Floweree had its own post office from 1910 to 1974.

Floweree
1910–1974
19101970today
Gone or out of use
Floweree Post Officepost officeFloweree Schoolschool

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Floweree’s history

What year was Floweree founded?

The Floweree post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.