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History · Martin City

Martin City’s post office opened in 1947

Most of Martin City was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1980. Below: maps from 1962 on and the census since 2000.

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How Martin City began

When was Martin City founded?

1947

The Martin City post office opened in 1947, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 331 in 20002020 census: 46179 years
Founding year: the first Martin City post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Martin City’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 Martin City are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Martin City’s history is told.

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The story so far

Martin City, in brief

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

Martin City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Flathead County, Montana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Martin City had a population of 461. Martin City owes its existence to the early 1950s construction of the Hungry Horse Dam.

Its first post office opened in 1947. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 500 to 461 (-8%).

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

Timeline

Martin City, 1947 to 1975

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1947Post officeThe Martin City post office opens
  3. 1962On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1975Post officeThe Martin City post office closes
By decade

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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

Martin City on the map, 1962 to 1994

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

Martin City on the 1962 USGS mapMartin City on the 1982 USGS mapMartin City on the 1994 USGS map1962Hungry Horse 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 Martin City.

People over time

Martin City, census by census

010020030040050020002020Peak: 500

Between 331 and 500 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Martin City’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Martin City

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

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Michelle WilliamsAmerican actress · b. 1980
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Margaret QualleyAmerican actress and model · b. 1994
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Brad BirdAmerican film director, animator, screenwriter … · b. 1957
Lily GladstoneAmerican actress · b. 1986
Constance TowersAmerican actress · b. 1933
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Misty UphamAmerican actress · b. 1982
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Martin City had its own post office from 1947 to 1975.

Martin City
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Martin City Post Officepost officeMartin City Schoolschool

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Hungry HorseIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Martin City’s history

What year was Martin City founded?

The Martin City post office opened in 1947, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.