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Granite

Ghost town · Granite County, Montana

Fred Burr Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)
Fred Burr Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Granite is a ghost town in Granite County, Montana. It is one of 9 former communities in Granite County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 19th among the 55 Montana counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Granite as a historical populated place: 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 46.3160° N, 113.2440° W.

Key facts

Elevation6,961 ft
Nearest living townPhilipsburg, MT
Distance to it2.7 miles
Coordinates46.31600, -113.24400

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.

Granite today, aerial view
Fred Burr Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)

Left: Fred Burr Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 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

Granite is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Philipsburg, MT (population 1,012), about 2.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 6,961 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 Granite?

Granite is in Granite County, Montana, at 46.3160, -113.2440.

How many ghost towns are in Granite County?

Granite County, Montana has 9 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

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.