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Lone Tree

Ghost town · Pondera County, Montana

Valier quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1934, 1:62,500)
Valier quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1934, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Lone Tree is a ghost town in Pondera County, Montana. It is one of 9 former communities in Pondera County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 18th among the 55 Montana counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Lone Tree as a historical populated place on the Cactus Flat 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 48.3805° N, 112.0564° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCactus Flat
Elevation3,526 ft
Nearest living townValier, MT
Distance to it10.4 miles
GNIS feature ID1748792
Coordinates48.38054, -112.05642

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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.

Lone Tree today, aerial view
Valier quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1934, 1:62,500)

Left: Valier quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1934, 1:62,500), 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

Lone Tree is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Valier, MT (population 626), about 10.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 3,526 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 Lone Tree?

Lone Tree is in Pondera County, Montana, at 48.3805, -112.0564.

How many ghost towns are in Pondera County?

Pondera 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.