Abandoned Record
About Bear Creek
Bearcreek is an incorporated town in Carbon County, Montana, United States. It is part of the Billings, Montana Metropolitan Statistical Area.
This is a site record: what public sources say about Bear Creek, gathered in one place. We haven't written a full guide yet, so history, current access and photos are still to come. Treat the status as unknown until a guide confirms it.
Map
Where Bear Creek is
Historic maps
7 historic USGS maps cover Bear Creek
Topographic sheets from the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain), oldest first. Older sheets often show the camp, mines and roads while the place was alive. The downloads are large map scans; USGS topoView shows them in the browser.
- 1944 Red Lodge sheet, 1:62,500 · GeoTIFF download
- 1954 Billings sheet, 1:250,000 · GeoTIFF download
- 1957 Billings sheet, 1:250,000 · GeoTIFF download
- 1958 Billings sheet, 1:250,000 · GeoTIFF download
- 1969 Red Lodge East sheet, 1:24,000 · GeoTIFF download
- 1989 Red Lodge sheet, 1:100,000 · GeoTIFF download
- 1996 Red Lodge East sheet, 1:24,000 · GeoTIFF download
Directions
Getting there
Before you go
- Many ghost town sites are on private land, active mining claims or tribal land. Check land status and ask permission.
- Roads to old townsites are often unmaintained dirt. Map apps may route over closed or impassable tracks.
- Removing artifacts from public land is illegal under federal and most state laws.
Nearby
Other sites near Bear Creek
Straight-line distance to other mapped sites in our Montana index.
Sources
Sources
- ghosttowns.com, "Bear Creek": county, roads, climate, best time to visit, remains.
- Wikipedia, "Bearcreek, Montana": coordinates and summary.
- Wikidata Q957442.
- USGS GNIS 779568.
- USGS 3D Elevation Program, elevation at the coordinates.
- USGS The National Map and Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain).