page_title: Deer Lodge, Montana
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Deer Lodge, Montana / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Deer Lodge, Montana 1869
context_page_description: Deer Lodge is an incorporated city in and the county seat of Powell County, Montana, in the United States. The population was 3,111 at the 2010 census. The city is perhaps best known as the home of the Montana State Prison, a major local employer. The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, and former state tuberculosis sanitarium in nearby Galen are the result of the power the western part of the state held over Montana at statehood due to the copper and mineral wealth in that area. Deer Lodge was also once an important railroad town, serving as a division headquarters for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad before the railroad's local abandonment in 1980.
  The current Montana State Prison occupies a campus 3.5 miles west of town. The former prison site, at the south end of Deer Lodge's Main Street, is now the Old Prison Museum. In addition to a former cellblock building, the museum complex includes a theater, antique and automobile museums, and a former Milwaukee Road "Little Joe" electric locomotive.
  Deer Lodge is also the location of Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, dedicated to the interpretation of the frontier cattle ranching era.
context_section_description: Deer Lodge is located at 46°23′46″N 112°43′59″W (46.396183, -112.732922).
  According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.44 square miles (3.73 km²), all land.
caption: Deer Lodge in 1869[77]
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