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History · Lodge Pole

Lodge Pole’s post office opened in 1906, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Lodge Pole was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1988. Its Register listing is the Lodgepole Community Hall. Below: maps from 1971 on.

1906first post office
1on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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How Lodge Pole began

When was Lodge Pole founded?

1906

The Lodge Pole post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 294120 years
Founding year: the first Lodge Pole post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Lodge Pole’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 Lodge Pole are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Lodge Pole, in brief

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

Lodge Pole is a census-designated place (CDP) in Blaine County, Montana, United States. The population was 294 at 2020 census, up from 265 at the 2010 census. It lies within the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, near the reservation's southern end. While Lodge Pole is located on a reservation belonging to both Assiniboine people and Gros Ventre people, the community itself is primarily inhabited by Assiniboine people, while nearby Hays is home to Gros Ventre. There was a post office as early as 1899.

Its first post office opened in 1906. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 265 to 294 (+11%).

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

Timeline

Lodge Pole, 1906 to 1971

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1906Post officeThe Lodge Pole post office opens
  3. 1919Post officeThe Lodge Pole post office closes
  4. 1971On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Lodge Pole on the map, 1971 to 1984

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

Lodge Pole on the 1971 USGS mapLodge Pole on the 1984 USGS map1971Lodge Pole sheet · 1:24,000

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

On the National Register

1 historic place in Lodge Pole

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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Lodgepole Community Hall
Lodgepole Community Hall
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Lodgepole Community HallBuilding · listed 2000

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Lodge Pole

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

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George Horse-CaptureMuseum curator, anthropologist, Native American… · b. 1937
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Mike LangAmerican politician in Montana
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Lodge Pole had its own post office from 1906 to 1919.

Lodge Pole
1906–1919
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Lodge Pole Post Officepost office

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

Questions about Lodge Pole’s history

What year was Lodge Pole founded?

The Lodge Pole post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Lodge Pole?

One place: the Lodgepole Community Hall (listed 2000).

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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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.