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Etna

Ghost town · Ravalli County, Montana

Bing quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)
Bing quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Etna is a ghost town in Ravalli County, Montana. It is one of 6 former communities in Ravalli County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 29th among the 55 Montana counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Etna as a historical populated place on the Bing 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 46.4360° N, 114.0843° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBing
Elevation3,345 ft
Nearest living townVictor, MT
Distance to it3.4 miles
GNIS feature ID1803088
Coordinates46.43603, -114.08427

Open the location on a map

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.

Etna today, aerial view
Bing quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)

Left: Bing quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 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

Etna is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Victor, MT (population 948), about 3.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 3,345 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.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Etna?

Etna is in Ravalli County, Montana, at 46.4360, -114.0843.

How many ghost towns are in Ravalli County?

Ravalli County, Montana has 6 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.