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Place Name
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Billings
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Capital Of
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Yellowstone County
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Population
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81,151 (1990)
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Location
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Yellowstone County, Montana (MT), United States, North America
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Latitude
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45°48'N
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Longitude
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108°32'W
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Billings
, city (1990 pop. 81,151),  Yellowstone co., S Mont., on
the Yellowstone R., in a valley surrounded by low mt. ranges; 45°48'N
108°32'W. Mont.'s largest city. Medical, mfg., and trade center for
the S Mont. and N Wyo. region. Mfg. (printing and publishing; paper and
wood prods., dairy prods., processed foods, computer equip., apparel,
fabricated steel, machinery, petroleum prods.). Wheat, sugar beets,
cattle, sheep, and wool are traded. Tourism has become important to the
city's economy. Founded in 1882 by the Minn. and Mont. Improvement
Co., Billings quickly became an important shipping point and
fur-trading center. Inc. as a city 1885, largest city in Mont. Seat of
Rocky Mt. Col. and Mont. State Univ. at Billings. Moss Mansion, the
Peter Yegen Jr. Mus., Western Heritage Center, Yellowstone Art Center,
ZooMontana are here. Billings-Logan Intl. Airport to N. Pryor Mts. to
S, Bull Mt. to N. Lake Elmo State Park to N; Pictograph State Park to
E; Crow Indian Reservation to SE.
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