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Oscar

Ghost town · Hill County, Montana

Shambo quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500)
Shambo quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Oscar is a ghost town in Hill County, Montana. It is one of 5 former communities in Hill County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 36th among the 55 Montana counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Oscar as a historical populated place on the Shambo NE 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 48.4239° N, 109.6091° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleShambo NE
Elevation3,384 ft
Nearest living townSaddle Butte, MT
Distance to it7.1 miles
GNIS feature ID1744176
Coordinates48.42388, -109.60908

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.

Oscar today, aerial view
Shambo quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500)

Left: Shambo quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 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

Oscar is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Saddle Butte, MT (population 139), about 7.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 3,384 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 Oscar?

Oscar is in Hill County, Montana, at 48.4239, -109.6091.

How many ghost towns are in Hill County?

Hill 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.