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Welcome to Four Buttes ...

Four Buttes is located in Daniels County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Four Buttes, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1927.

Four Buttes is 2,480 feet [756 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Four Buttes is about ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: Four Buttes lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Four Buttes: 406

Communities near Four Buttes ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Four Buttes.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Four Buttes. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Four Buttes.

We have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Four Buttes. See our Newspapers Page for Four Buttes.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Four Buttes ...

Looking for more information about Four Buttes? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Four Buttes, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Four Buttes.

Adding Four Buttes to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Four Buttes in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Four Buttes was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Four Buttes post office opened in 1927.

We also found Four Buttes on a map titled Hixson Map of Montana (1950).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Four Buttes.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Montana's counties, including Daniels, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Four Buttes - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/