Map of Terry town, Montana

Terry, incorporated in 1910, is a town in and the county seat of Prairie County, Montana, United States. The population was 562 at the 2020 census.

Terry town overview:
Name:	Terry town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Montana
County:	Prairie County
Elevation:	2,251 ft (686 m)
Total Area:	0.78 sq mi (2.02 km²)
Land Area:	0.78 sq mi (2.02 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	562
Population Density:	719.59/sq mi (277.75/km²)
ZIP code:	59349
Area code:	406
FIPS code:	3073675
GNISfeature ID:	0777474
Website:	townofterry.com

Online Interactive Map

Terry online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.

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Terry location on the U.S. Map. Where is Terry town. — Terry location on the U.S. Map.

Terry location on the Montana map. Where is Terry town. — Location of Terry in Montana.

History

The site where Terry is located was first called Joubert’s Landing, in recognition of the man who built a supply point along the Yellowstone River for freighters traveling from Bismarck, Dakota Territory, to Miles City, Montana Territory. When the Northern Pacific Railway’s transcontinental rail line arrived in 1881, the town was renamed for Alfred Howe Terry, a General in the Union Army who commanded an 1876 expedition in connection with George Armstrong Custer’s campaign against Native Americans, specifically in the west.

Terry became a two-railroad town when the Milwaukee Road constructed a transcontinental line known as the Pacific Extension through the town in the early 20th century. The Custer Creek train wreck, the worst rail disaster in Montana history, occurred near Terry along this line in 1938.

Terry Road Map

Terry city Satellite Map

Geography

Terry is located at 46°47′24″N 105°18′48″W / 46.79000°N 105.31333°W / 46.79000; -105.31333 (46.790099, −105.313431), in Eastern Montana, approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) south of the Yellowstone River.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.71 square miles (1.84 km), all land. It is located just north of Interstate 94, at the cross roads of old highway 10 and highway 253.

The town on average has over 200 days of sunshine a year.

The average annual snowfall is 17.6 inches a year.

The Terry Badlands lie just north of the Yellowstone River, and is one of the wilderness study areas in Montana.