Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Montana
- County
- Granite
- Total
- 0.85 sq mi (2.20 km )
- Land
- 0.85 sq mi (2.20 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 5,233 ft (1,595 m)
- Density
- 988.9/sq mi (381.81/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-6 (MDT)
- Fips code
- 30-57175
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Philip Deidesheimer
- Official name
- Philipsburg
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Granite County
- Population
- 841
- Area
- 2.074998
- Elevation
- 1598
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Capital of
- Granite County
- Official website
- philipsburgmt.com
- Image
- Philipsburg Grade School NRHP 86002789 Granite County, MT.jpg
- Households
- 340
- Dialing code
- 406
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- postal code
- 59858
- Commons category
- Philipsburg, Montana
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 20189
- inception
- 1867-00-00
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Philipsburg is a town in and the county seat of Granite County, Montana, United States. The population was 841 at the 2020 census. The town was named after the famous mining engineer Philip Deidesheimer, who designed and supervised the construction of the ore smelter around which the town originally formed. He platted the townsite in 1867.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Philipsburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.