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Government Edition · Montana
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One place to understand Montana government, public records, elections and the economic decisions shaping communities.
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A daily window into meetings, legislation and public activity — organized around official sources and understandable context.
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Your Montana
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County, city or ZIP can resolve the public jurisdictions, officials, meetings, election information and community data connected to a user.
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Canonical geography
Montana counties and county equivalents
Each geography resolves backward to US-MT and forward into the same national place, records and program graph.
View all 56 canonical county relationships
Beaverhead CountyUS-MT-001 · FIPS 30001Big Horn CountyUS-MT-003 · FIPS 30003Blaine CountyUS-MT-005 · FIPS 30005Broadwater CountyUS-MT-007 · FIPS 30007Carbon CountyUS-MT-009 · FIPS 30009Carter CountyUS-MT-011 · FIPS 30011Cascade CountyUS-MT-013 · FIPS 30013Chouteau CountyUS-MT-015 · FIPS 30015Custer CountyUS-MT-017 · FIPS 30017Daniels CountyUS-MT-019 · FIPS 30019Dawson CountyUS-MT-021 · FIPS 30021Deer Lodge CountyUS-MT-023 · FIPS 30023Fallon CountyUS-MT-025 · FIPS 30025Fergus CountyUS-MT-027 · FIPS 30027Flathead CountyUS-MT-029 · FIPS 30029Gallatin CountyUS-MT-031 · FIPS 30031Garfield CountyUS-MT-033 · FIPS 30033Glacier CountyUS-MT-035 · FIPS 30035Golden Valley CountyUS-MT-037 · FIPS 30037Granite CountyUS-MT-039 · FIPS 30039Hill CountyUS-MT-041 · FIPS 30041Jefferson CountyUS-MT-043 · FIPS 30043Judith Basin CountyUS-MT-045 · FIPS 30045Lake CountyUS-MT-047 · FIPS 30047Lewis and Clark CountyUS-MT-049 · FIPS 30049Liberty CountyUS-MT-051 · FIPS 30051Lincoln CountyUS-MT-053 · FIPS 30053McCone CountyUS-MT-055 · FIPS 30055Madison CountyUS-MT-057 · FIPS 30057Meagher CountyUS-MT-059 · FIPS 30059Mineral CountyUS-MT-061 · FIPS 30061Missoula CountyUS-MT-063 · FIPS 30063Musselshell CountyUS-MT-065 · FIPS 30065Park CountyUS-MT-067 · FIPS 30067Petroleum CountyUS-MT-069 · FIPS 30069Phillips CountyUS-MT-071 · FIPS 30071Pondera CountyUS-MT-073 · FIPS 30073Powder River CountyUS-MT-075 · FIPS 30075Powell CountyUS-MT-077 · FIPS 30077Prairie CountyUS-MT-079 · FIPS 30079Ravalli CountyUS-MT-081 · FIPS 30081Richland CountyUS-MT-083 · FIPS 30083Roosevelt CountyUS-MT-085 · FIPS 30085Rosebud CountyUS-MT-087 · FIPS 30087Sanders CountyUS-MT-089 · FIPS 30089Sheridan CountyUS-MT-091 · FIPS 30091Silver Bow CountyUS-MT-093 · FIPS 30093Stillwater CountyUS-MT-095 · FIPS 30095Sweet Grass CountyUS-MT-097 · FIPS 30097Teton CountyUS-MT-099 · FIPS 30099Toole CountyUS-MT-101 · FIPS 30101Treasure CountyUS-MT-103 · FIPS 30103Valley CountyUS-MT-105 · FIPS 30105Wheatland CountyUS-MT-107 · FIPS 30107Wibaux CountyUS-MT-109 · FIPS 30109Yellowstone CountyUS-MT-111 · FIPS 30111
Explore Montana
One state. Four ways in.
01 · PEOPLE
Officials & Candidates
Office, district, committees, public activity, election information and source-linked profiles.
02 · GOVERNMENT
Bills & Meetings
Legislation, committees, agendas, public actions and changes to the official record.
03 · COMMUNITIES
Economy & Development
Jobs, workforce, housing, infrastructure and public investment in context.
04 · LEARN
Government, Explained
Plain-English education on process, public records and economic-development tools.
DayMark Record
History should never disappear.
When an official public record changes later, LightHouse can preserve the earlier event and append the new evidence rather than silently replacing history.
Public Activity Record
Source-linked chronology with earlier and later official records retained separately.
AdapterReady
DayMark chronology ready
The template will render immutable record events after the state adapter and private LightHouse evidence layer are connected.
HistorySource-first
No fabricated political scores
Public output can show verified chronology and Beacon evidence confidence without inventing unsupported activity data.
Accountability workflows
Ask the official — or request the records.
Authenticated submissions are validated server-side, audited and routed without exposing official or custodian email mappings in page HTML.
PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST
Request the underlying records.
Use the national guided gateway with Montana already selected.
Open guided request →COMPLETE THE RECORD
Close an evidence gap.
Public-record responses can be ingested back into the evidence graph and improve the published record.
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Economic-development education
Government decisions shape communities.
Public economic information can sit beside the government decisions and records that help explain it.
Jobs & Workforce
Employment, wages, labor force and workforce-development context.
Housing
Supply, affordability, development and public policy affecting communities.
Infrastructure
Transportation, utilities and public capital projects supporting communities.
Public Investment
Publicly documented incentives, grants, agreements and project outcomes.
Nonpartisan voter education
Election information should be easier to understand.
Comparable candidate pages, office explainers, public forums and official election resources — without endorsements.
VOTER GUIDE
Understand the office.
Explain what an office does before presenting comparable candidate information.
CANDIDATES
Comparable profiles.
Use the same structure and sourcing rules across candidates in the same contest.
PUBLIC FORUMS
Questions in public.
Archive questions, responses and source material with context attached.
OFFICIAL RESOURCES
Verify the basics.
Keep the official election authority directly accessible.
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