Missoula
| Missoula | |
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| Nickname : The Garden City | |
 Higgins Street Bridge |
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| Location of Missoula in the state of Montana | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1866 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Montana |
| County : | Missoula County |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 53 ′ N , 114 ° 2 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
72,364 (as of 2016) 116,130 (as of 2016) |
| Population density : | 1,174.7 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 61.9 km 2 (approx. 24 mi 2 ) of which 61.6 km 2 (approx. 24 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 978 m |
| Postcodes : | 59801-59812 |
| Area code : | +1 406 |
| FIPS : | 30-50200 |
| GNIS ID : | 0787504 |
| Website : | www.ci.missoula.mt.us |
| Mayor : | John Engen |
 Missoula as seen from Mt. Higgins (1999) |
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Missoula is a city in the United States of America in the US state of Montana and is the administrative seat of Missoula County .
Missoula is on the Clark Fork River . Nearby, it joins the Bitterroot River and the Blackfoot River . Furthermore, the city is surrounded by five mountain ranges, which is why it is nicknamed the “hub of five valleys”. According to the United States Census Bureau , Missoula had 72,346 inhabitants in 2016 and the metropolitan area 116,130. After Billings , Missoula is the second largest city and metropolitan area of Montana. Missoula is home to the state University of Montana - Missoula .
Missoula was founded in 1860 as the Hellgate Trading Post and was part of the Washington Territory . In 1866 the settlement had moved 5 miles upstream and was renamed Missoula Mills, which was later shortened to Missoula. At that time, Missoula provided provisions and supplies for settlers moving west along Mullan Road . To better protect the settlers, Fort Missoula was founded in 1877, which stabilized the economy. With the connection to the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1883, there was a boom in the local timber industry. In 1893, Missoula was selected by the Montana government as the site of the state's first university. Together with a headquarters of the United States Forest Service , which was founded in 1908, the timber industry and the university remained the most important economic pillars of the city for a long time.
In the 1990s, the timber industry began to stagnate, and as of 2009, the city's main employers have been the University of Montana , Missoula County Public Schools, and the two hospitals. The city is ruled by a mayor and 12 council members, with 2 members from each district. In and around Missoula there are 160 hectares of pasture land, 35 km of hiking trails and almost 20 km² of protected open pasture land, which is home to elk and deer in winter. The city is home to the oldest and largest Montana breweries. The Montana Grizzlies are one of the strongest college football teams in Division I of the NCAA . Famous residents include first congressman Jeannette Rankin and longest-serving Senate party leader Mike Mansfield .
Missoula has one international airport, Missoula International Airport ( IATA code MSO).
geography
Missoula is located in western Montana at an altitude of around 950 m surrounded by mountains and traversed by three rivers - the Clark Fork River , the Bitterroot River and the Blackfoot River - in the former basin of a large prehistoric glacial lake , the Missoula Glacier Lake of the same name, eponymous for the mighty Missoula floods at the end of the last ice age .
economy
A national railroad company called Montana Rail Link is based in Missoula.
In culture
Norman Maclean's novel From the Middle A River Raises and the Hollywood drama From the Middle Raises a River (1992) by Robert Redford set against the backdrop of the Missoula river landscape.
Town twinning
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Neckargemünd , Germany -
Palmerston North , New Zealand
sons and daughters of the town
- Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973), politician, first woman in the US Congress and House of Representatives
- Washington J. McCormick (1884–1949), politician, member of the US House of Representatives
- Dorothy Baker (1907–1968), writer
- Raymond P. Ahlquist (1914-1983), pharmacist and pharmacologist
- Ted Nichols (* 1928), composer, arranger, conductor and music teacher
- George Turman (1928–2008), Mayor of Missoula and Lieutenant Governor of Montana (1981–1989)
- Leroy Hood (born 1938), biologist
- Jack Silver (1942-2016), mathematician
- David Lynch (* 1946), director and artist
- Troy Evans (born 1948), actor
- Bob Rock junior (* 1949), luge rider
- Allen Vizzutti (* 1952), trumpeter, composer and music teacher
- Dana Carvey (* 1955), actor and comedian
- Bill Bowers (born 1959), mime artist and actor
- Dave Johnson (born 1963), track and field athlete and Olympic medalist
- Steve Bullock (* 1966), politician
- Jeff Olson (* 1966), ski racer
- Brian P. Schmidt (* 1967), astronomer
- Eric Bergoust (* 1969), freestyle skier
- Tommy Moe (* 1970), ski racer
- Scott Michael Campbell (* 1971), actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Tobias Read (* 1975), politician
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson (born 1975), actor
- Brandon Bryant (* 1985), drone pilot and whistleblower
- Jordan Hasquet (born 1985), basketball player
- Peter Lowry (born 1985), football player
- Jason Lamy Chappuis (* 1986), French Nordic combined skier
- Christina Jones (* 1987), synchronized swimmer
- Björn Sandström (* 1995), Swedish cross-country skier
