Carbon County is a county in Montana, United States, along the Wyoming border at the northern gateway to the Beartooth Highway. It had a population of 10,473 at the 2020 census and covers 2,062 square miles (5,340 km2), of which 2,049 square miles (5,310 km2) is land, centred near 45\u00b014\u2032N 109\u00b001\u2032W.<\/p>\n
Red Lodge is the county seat, and its postal code is 59068. The county has one incorporated city and five incorporated towns, plus a number of unincorporated communities, and runs on Mountain Time.<\/p>\n
Carbon County has one incorporated city, five incorporated towns and a scatter of unincorporated communities, many dating to the county’s coal-mining era. CDP = census-designated place; Unincorp. = unincorporated community with no municipal government.<\/p>\n
| Place<\/th>\n | Type<\/th>\n | Pop.<\/th>\n | ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Lodge<\/td>\n | City · seat<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 59068<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bridger<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 59014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Joliet<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 59041<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fromberg<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 59029<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Belfry<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 59008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bearcreek<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 59007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Roberts<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 59070<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Roscoe<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Edgar<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Silesia<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Boyd<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Alpine<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Warren<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Washoe<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Rockvale<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fox<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Luther<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Wade<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Washoe and Bearcreek were once separate coal camps a few miles apart, both largely abandoned after the 1943 Smith Mine disaster closed the district’s last major mine; Bearcreek retained its incorporation and Washoe did not.<\/p>\n ZIP Codes<\/h2>\nSmaller unincorporated places such as Roscoe, Edgar, Silesia, Rockvale and Fox share a ZIP code with the nearest town rather than having their own.<\/p>\n Geography<\/h2>\nCarbon County sits at the transition between the Yellowstone River valley’s farmland and the Beartooth Mountains, part of the Absaroka-Beartooth range that forms the county’s southwestern edge. Granite Peak, Montana’s highest point at 12,807 feet, rises along that border, and the Clarks Fork Yellowstone River drains the county’s eastern half past Bridger, Fromberg and Belfry before joining the Yellowstone River in neighboring Yellowstone County.<\/p>\n |