Malta (Montana)

Phillips County

30-47425

Malta [ mɒltə ] ( assiniboine Iyúkšą ti ʾ Oda, Oyúwąga, O ʾ íyuweǧe, Wakpa įyúkšą ) is a city in the U.S. state of Montana, United States and the administrative seat of Phillips County.

Geography

Malta is located in the north of Montana in the High Plains. South of the town are the Little Rocky Mountains, a group of Härtlingen with heights of up to 1743 meters. The Milk River serves as a water source for Malta. It rises in the area of Glacier National Park.

The metropolitan area has a size of 2.75 km ². In 2010, the population was 1,997.

Infrastructure

U.S. Highway 2, a cross- Bled in east-west direction through the northern U.S. Highway, connects Malta with other cities from Washington State to Michigan. In Malta, he meets U.S. Highway 191, which leads to the Mexican border in the opposite direction as far as Arizona.

Malta has its own railway station, which is owned by the BNSF Railway and is served by the Empire Builder of the railroad company Amtrak. In fiscal 2010, here rose an average of 9 passengers daily on or off.

Attractions

In Malta there are two stations of the Montana Dinosaur Trail.

• Great Plains Dinosaur Museum: Here the in 2000 discovered north of Malta Brachylophosaurus Leonardo is issued. It is the best preserved according to the Guinness Book of World Records dinosaur of all time. He is only one of four previously found mummified dinosaurs. Leonardo lived 77 million years. In addition, fossils of fish, invertebrates, plants and other dinosaurs such as Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Hadrosaurus and copies of the sauropods and Dromaeosauridae be shown.
• Phillips County Museum: The shown Brachylophosaurus skeleton has a length of 10 meters. In addition are a skull of Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton and a seinens relatives of Albertosaurus issued.

Climate

Since the climate in Malta is semiarid, the long winters are usually cold and dry, while the summers are hot and wet.

History

After 1887 was built across Montana St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway, Malta developed from the former siding 54th 1890 a post office was established in Malta. The place got its name supposedly when an employee of the Great Northern Railway turned a globe and his finger paused over the state of Malta in the Mediterranean.

The wicked Sundance Kid robbed in 1892 with Harry Bass and Bill Madden a train in Malta. He was a member of the criminal group, The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy. On July 3, 1901 robbed the Harvey Logan known as Kid Curry, another member of the gang a train in Malta. He captured while 40,000 U.S. dollars.