The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Billings, Montana, USA.
Prior to 20th century
- 1877 - Homesteaders arrive.[1]
- 1882
- March 24, 1882: Incorporation date of the Minnesota and Montana Land and Improvement Company.[2]
- Billings Depot built.
- Billings Herald newspaper begins publication.[3]
- Billings Cemetery established.
- 1883
- 1885 - Billings Daily Gazette newspaper begins publication.
- 1889 - Town becomes part of new State of Montana.
- 1891 - The Weekly Times newspaper begins publication.[3]
20th century
- 1901 - Public Library established.[5][6]
- 1902 - Billings and Northern Railroad in operation.
- 1903 - Moss Mansion (residence) built.
- 1904 - Northern Hotel in business.
- 1906 - Babcock Theater built.[7]
- 1908 - Billings Polytechnic founded.
- 1910
- Masonic Temple (Billings, Montana) built.
- Population: 10,031.
- 1912 - Billings and Central Montana Railway in operation.
- 1917 - Cereal Food Processor Building constructed.
- 1927 - Eastern Montana Normal School founded.
- 1928 - Billings Municipal Airport begins operating.[8]
- 1929 - Yale Oil refinery begins operating.[9]
- 1931 - Fox Theater opens.
- 1932 - Cobb Field baseball park opens.
- 1935 - Intermountain Union College relocated to Billings (approximate date).
- 1937 - Pictograph Cave excavation begins near city.
- 1944 - St. Patrick's High School established.
- 1947
- Rocky Mountain College established.
- Carter Oil Company refinery built near Billings.[10]
- 1948 - Billings Mustangs baseball team formed.
- 1950
- Billings Symphony Orchestra founded.
- Shrine Auditorium built.
- Population: 31,834.
- 1953 - Billings Studio Theater company founded.
- 1957 - Yellowstone County Courthouse built.
- 1958 - June 2: Tornado.
- 1962 - Kampgrounds of America headquartered in Billings.
- 1964 - Yellowstone Art Center opens.
- 1971 - Western Heritage Center opens.
- 1974 - Sage Tower built.
- 1975
- Montana Entertainment Trade and Recreation Arena opens.
- Granite Tower built.
- Rimrock Mall in business.
- 1977 - Norwest Bank built.
- 1980
- Sheraton Hotel built.
- City covered in ash from 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
- Population: 66,798.
- 1982 - Rocky Plaza condos built.
- 1985 - First Interstate Center built.
- 1986 - Flag of Billings, Montana design adopted.
- 1988 - City filled with smoke from Yellowstone fires of 1988.
- 1990 - Population: 81,151.[11]
- 1992 - December 18: Airplane crash.[12]
- 1993 - Billings Bulls ice hockey team formed.
- 1994 - Montana Women's Prison in operation.[13]
- 1995 - ZooMontana opens.
- 1996 - Charles Tooley becomes mayor.[14]
- 1999
- Four Dances Natural Area acquired by US Bureau of Land Management.[15]
- City website online.[16]
- Mormon Temple dedicated.
21st century
- 2000
- Population: 89,847
- 2002 - Skypoint awning/sculpture installed.[17]
- 2007 - Billings Dharma Center dedicated.[18]
- 2008 - Dehler Park (stadium) opens.
- 2009
- Magic City Rollers roller derby league formed.[19]
- Tom Hanel becomes mayor.[20]
- 2010
- June 20: 2010 Billings tornado.[21]
- Population: 104,170.
- 2011 - July: Oil pipeline bursts near city.[22]
- 2017
- Bill Cole becomes mayor
See also
References
- ↑ Wishart 2004.
- ↑ "Minnesota and Montana Land and Improvement Company". opencorporates.com. OpenCorporates. 31 March 2023. Archived from the original on March 20, 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- 1 2 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ Campbell 1915.
- ↑ "Parmly Billings Library". City of Billings. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. pp. 7 v.
- ↑ "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ "City of Billings Logan International Airport". City of Billings. Archived from the original on February 13, 2001.
- ↑ "Yale Oil of South Dakota - Billings Facility". Montana Department of Environmental Quality. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ "ExxonMobil Billings Refinery" (PDF). ExxonMobil. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Billings". Billings Gazette. Archived from the original on August 17, 2000.
- ↑ "Small Jet Crashes in Montana". New York Times. December 19, 1992.
- ↑ "Montana Women's Prison". Montana Department of Corrections. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Mayor". City of Billings. Archived from the original on September 2, 2000.
- ↑ "Four Dances". United States Department of the Interior. Archived from the original on June 16, 2007. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Welcome to Billings Montana". Archived from the original on 1999-01-25 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Ednor Therriault (2010), Montana Curiosities, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press
- ↑ Pluralism Project. "Billings, Montana". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
- ↑ "Magic City Rollers". Billings, MT. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Tornado Tears Through City in Montana". New York Times. June 20, 2010.
- ↑ "Ruptured Montana Pipeline Was Shut Down Before". New York Times. July 3, 2011.
Exxon Mobil pipeline
Bibliography
- "(Billings)", Official Northern Pacific Railway Guide, St. Paul, Minn.: W.C. Riley, 1899
- "Billings, Montana". National Magazine. Boston. November 1905.
- Marius R. Campbell (1915), "Billings", Guidebook of the Western United States: Northern Pacific Route, U.S. Government Printing Office
- Federal Writers' Project (1939). "Billings". Montana: a State Guide Book. American Guide Series. NY: Viking Press. hdl:2027/mdp.39015005748036.
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- Kliewer, Waldo O. "The Foundations of Billings, Montana." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 31.3 (1940): 255-283. online
- Van West, Carroll. Capitalism on the frontier: Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the nineteenth century (U of Nebraska Press, 1993) online.
- George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Billings, Montana", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
- David J. Wishart, ed. (2004). "Cities and Towns: Billings, Montana". Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4787-7.
- Hardt, Mark D. "The Emergence of a Competitive Core: Bifurcation Dynamics in Billings, Montana." in Downtowns: Revitalizing the Centers of Small Urban Communities (2013).
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