Butte
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- Names
Butte
Butte City
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on W slope of Continental Divide; founded as gold mining camp in 1862; boomed after immense deposits of copper & silver were found within city limits; expanded after arrival of railroads in 1880s; copper, zinc, lead & manganese are mined nearby.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994);
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