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Ashleys Settlement

Ghost town · Sanders County, Montana

Eddy Mountain quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)
Eddy Mountain quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Ashleys Settlement is a ghost town in Sanders County, Montana. It is one of 5 former communities in Sanders County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 33rd among the 55 Montana counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Ashleys Settlement as a historical populated place on the Eddy Mountain topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 47.5763° N, 115.2468° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleEddy Mountain
Elevation2,427 ft
Nearest living townThompson Falls, MT
Distance to it4.7 miles
GNIS feature ID1780981
Coordinates47.57632, -115.24682

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Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Ashleys Settlement today, aerial view
Eddy Mountain quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)

Left: Eddy Mountain quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Ashleys Settlement is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Thompson Falls, MT (population 1,568), about 4.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 2,427 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

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Questions

Where is Ashleys Settlement?

Ashleys Settlement is in Sanders County, Montana, at 47.5763, -115.2468.

How many ghost towns are in Sanders County?

Sanders County, Montana has 5 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.