Blossburg
Powell · USGS GNIS name record 800485
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These Census tracts have reference points near Blossburg. Their figures describe the entire named tract, not this locality. Open a tract to inspect its map, sources and demographic percentages.
Census tract 6 ↗
Lewis and Clark County · MT
- Population
- 2,622
- Median home value
- $524,600
Census tract 7.01 ↗
Lewis and Clark County · MT
- Population
- 2,580
- Median home value
- $417,600
Census tract 2 ↗
Lewis and Clark County · MT
- Population
- 6,472
- Median home value
- $399,400
Census tract 8 ↗
Lewis and Clark County · MT
- Population
- 4,027
- Median home value
- $394,400
The source behind the name
USGS GNIS Populated Place names in all 50 states and DC. Features in the historical extract or explicitly named historical are excluded; duplicate decision records with identical identities and coordinates are collapsed. GNIS points identify names, not legal or neighborhood boundaries, current occupancy, school attendance or a statistical population. Nearby Census places and tracts remain separately named geographies. Name completeness and currency vary; this is not a claim to include every locally used neighborhood name.
Original USGS record for Blossburg ↗Dataset snapshot 2026-09-02 · Source record edited 06/07/2022 · NAD83 · approximate source location
USGS description & history
Located in the southeastern portion of Powell County near its boundary with Lewis and Clark County, 1.6 km (1 mi) SW of Mullan Pass.
Blossburg was the name of a station along the Northern Pacific Railroad and was named by a Mr. Wicks, a mining engineer, after a Pennsylvania coal mining town spelled Blosburg. This community was formerly called Mullan, named for Captain John Mullan who was a member of the Stevens Survey of 1853. That Survey explored Montana in search of routes for a transcontinental railroad. The name was later changed to Blossburg because mail shipments kept being inadvertently sent to Mullan, Idaho.
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