Welcome to Silver Gate ...

Silver Gate is located in Park County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Silver Gate, you might consider that their post office opened in 1937.

Silver Gate is 7,390 feet [2,252 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Silver Gate is about 1½ mile [or 2¼ km] above sea level.

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

Area Code for Silver Gate: 406

The ZIP code for Silver Gate: 59081<3>

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

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

We're compiling a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Silver Gate. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Silver Gate.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Silver Gate. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Silver Gate.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Silver Gate ...

Looking for more information about Silver Gate? 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.

In addition to the Tourism page for Silver Gate, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Silver Gate.

Adding Silver Gate to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Silver Gate 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 Silver Gate was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Silver Gate post office opened in 1937.

We also found Silver Gate on a map titled Hixson Map of Montana (1950).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Silver Gate.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Montana's counties, including Park, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	The elevation is an estimate for the area around Silver Gate - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>	ZIP Codes have been created by the United States Postal Service (USPS) as a way of grouping addresses to make delivery more efficient. The boundaries of the ZIP Code can be changed, re-assigned, eliminated or overlapped with other ZIP Codes. So keep in mind that any given ZIP Code is only 'loosely' associated with a community (such as Silver Gate). When looking for a ZIP Code, whether Silver Gate or elsewhere, it's always best to check the website of the United States Postal Service (USPS).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/