Whitlash, Montana

Whitlash
Unincorporated community
Whitlash
Location within the state of Montana
Coordinates: 48°54′29″N 111°15′11″W / 48.90806°N 111.25306°W / 48.90806; -111.25306Coordinates: 48°54′29″N 111°15′11″W / 48.90806°N 111.25306°W / 48.90806; -111.25306
Country United States
State Montana
County Liberty
Time zone UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-6 (MDT)

Whitlash is an unincorporated community in northwestern Liberty County, Montana, United States, about five miles south of the province of Alberta across the Canada–US border.[1]

Whitlash has a post office and an elementary school that provides educational services in grades prekindergarten through 8. The community is accessible only by unpaved road. The Whitlash Border Crossing is about five miles to the north. As of 2014, Whitlash, with the zip code of 59545, had a population of 35 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 133.33 percent.[2]

Whitlash is located near the East Butte of the Sweet Grass Hills which are major historic and physical landmarks of the Great Plains. Sacred to the American Indians, "The Hills" served as hunting grounds, battlegrounds, spiritual grounds, and of course were used for navigational purposes as well.

It is approximately tied with Lothair, Montana as the closest of any community in the contiguous United States to being antipodal of land, with the opposite point on the Earth being about 5 km offshore of Cape d'Aiguillon of Kerguelen Island, in the southern Indian Ocean. (See . Lothair is within about 5 km of a tiny islet to the north of Kerguelen.)

References

  1. ↑ "Whitlash | U.S. Customs and Border Protection". www.cbp.gov. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  2. ↑ "Best Places to Live in Whitlash (zip 59545), Montana". www.bestplaces.net. Retrieved 2017-11-19.


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