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NEW: Pioneers in Powder River Country History
Have Obituaries to submit? Go to this link and look for the form. It will be forwarded to me and II will post it.
Neighboring counties are: Carter, Fallon, Powder River, Prairie and Rosebud.
Custer Country - Located in Southeastern Montana, Custer Country is most notably know
by the historical battle that occurred in 1876 between the United States Seventh Calvary
Regiment led by Lt. Col George Armstrong Custer and the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians
led by Sitting Bull. This legendary battle was called the Battle of the Little Bighorn and is
memorialized at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument within the boundaries
of the Crow Indian reservation.
Custer Country also has many popular dinosaur fossil dig sites.
Miles City is the county seat in Custer County.County name was originally Big Horn.
In 1877 was renamed to Custer after Gen. George A. Custer. Custer county is in the
southeast section of Montana. Neighboring counties are Carter, Fallon, Powder River,
Prairie and Rosebud.
The community was named after Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles, who led
campaigns against Indian tribes
The latitude of Miles City is 46.408N. The longitude is -105.84W.
It is in the Mountain Standard time zone. Elevation is 2,369 feet.
Custer County is one of 56 counties in Montana. The estimated
population in 2004 was 11,454. This was a decrease of -2.07% from the 2000 census.
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WELCOME TO CUSTER COUNTY, MT. This is Custer County Montana web site. My name is Jo Ann Boyd Scott. I grew up in Montana and my heart is in Montana. This is “Big Sky Country”. I will do lookups, e-mail me. Custer County, Genealogy Trails website is available for adoption. If you are interested in hosting this county or any others site for us, view our Volunteer Information page and contact Kim. (a desire to transcribe data and basic webpage-making 
skills are required).*Note: Unless otherwise stated, ALL DATA and INFO are donated, transcribed and submitted by JoAnn Boyd Scott and the "Friends of Free Genealogy" I keep a folder in the computer which has all "Friends of Free Genealogy" which includes names, date, email and copy of the data sent. Here at Genealogy Trails, we will always give contributors the credit they deserve when they contribute data to our sites. And we will ALWAYS abide by a researcher's request to remove their contributed data if ever asked to do so. THIS APPLIES TO ALL COUNTIES This site is copyrighted 2007-2008, images included. e-mail Jo Ann
