Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Rhodes

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Rhodes

Half of Rhodes’ homes were built after 1984

Most of Rhodes was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1984. Below: maps from 1962 on.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

What stands out about Rhodes’ 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 Rhodes are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Rhodes’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rhodes’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Rhodes, in brief

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

Rhodes is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Flathead County, Montana, United States. It is in the western part of the county, in the valley of Big Lost Creek where it emerges from Rhodes Draw. It is 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Kalispell, the county seat. As of the 2020 census, Rhodes had a population of 146. Rhodes was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

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

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.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Rhodes on the map, 1962 to 1991

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

Rhodes on the 1962 USGS mapRhodes on the 1982 USGS mapRhodes on the 1991 USGS map1962Rhodes 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 Rhodes.

Famous people

Famous people close to Rhodes

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

See all →
Michelle WilliamsAmerican actress · b. 1980
M
Margaret QualleyAmerican actress and model · b. 1994
B
Brad BirdAmerican film director, animator, screenwriter … · b. 1957
Lily GladstoneAmerican actress · b. 1986
Constance TowersAmerican actress · b. 1933
M
Misty UphamAmerican actress · b. 1982

Questions about Rhodes’ history

Memory lane

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

Town Square →
Start a conversation
Sources

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 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.