Butte County Post Offices

The following list of Post Offices includes all of the offices that were located in Butte County during some period of their existence. When Butte County was split into the present-day counties of Butte, Harding, and Perkins in 1909, each county's Post Offices, naturally, followed suit; thus, one might be surprised to find many of the present-day towns of Harding and Perkins Counties included in this table.




Post OfficeEstablishedDiscontinued# On Map
Acme 23 March 1910 15 April 1914 #1
Arpan 10 October 1911 14 August 1923 (b) #2
Ashcroft 15 July 1889 (a) n/a
Ball 18 November 1909 April 1919 #3
Bison 12 October 1907 (c) n/a
Bixby 18 December 1895 (c) n/a
Burlan 31 October 1923 15 September 1924 #4
Belle Fourche (d) 22 June 1891 Still Operational #5
Buffalo 9 February 1909 (a) n/a
Butte 7 May 1883 20 November 1897 #6
Camp Crook 26 February 1885 (a) n/a
Cave Hills 15 July 1889 (a) n/a
Castle Rock 2 August 1910 1 September 1972 #7
Chance 18 July 1901 (c) n/a
Clathorne 2 July 1910 31 March 1914 #8
Date 22 May 1900 (c) n/a
Deermont 1 November 1910 14 February 1920 #9
Empire 15 May 1882 30 April 1912 #10
Fruitdale 31 May 1910 Still Operational #11
Gallup 25 February 1885 (c) n/a
Grand River 20 July 1907 (c) n/a
Halliburton 5 October 1906 30 November 1907 (e)
Haycreek 28 June 1921 31 August 1932 #13
Harding (Nashville) 2 December 1884 (a) n/a
Hodges 6 December 1910 31 January 1912 #14
Hoover 3 May 1905 31 May 1973 #15
Horse Creek 7 December 1908 15 April 1914 #16
Indian Creek 22 December 1904 1 September 1905 #17
Karinen 30 November 1907 (a) n/a
Kismet 29 November 1910 31 March 1914 #18
Lemmon 29 July 1907 (c) n/a
Lena 25 July 1908 30 September 1909 (e)
Lodgepole 22 October 1907 (a) n/a
Ludlow 21 August 1897 (a) n/a
Macy 30 January 1885 3 January 1906 #20
Mason 20 May 1912 3 December 1940 #21
Meadow 27 August 1907 (c) n/a
Middle Creek 6 May 1910 31 January 1911 #22
Minnesela 12 January 1882 11 November 1901 #23
Moreau 13 May 1907 (c) n/a
Newell 15 February 1910 Still Operational #24
Nisland 20 December 1909 Still Operational #25
Oens 5 October 1911 1914 #26
Orman 8 May 1906 15 April 1914 #27
Owl Butte 13 March 1911 25 September 1911 #28
Penville 16 July 1908 (a) n/a
Ralph 7 December 1908 (a) n/a
Reva 8 August 1896 (a) n/a
Rothford 4 May 1911 31 May 1914 #29
Sampont 9 January 1905 25 July 1918 #30
Seim 4 December 1901 (c) n/a
Snoma 31 March 1890 15 March 1911 #31
Strool 14 July 1908 (c) n/a
Twilight 21 March 1914 15 November 1944 #32
Vale 6 March 1883 Still Operational #33
Voice 28 March 1911 31 December 1911 #34
Wescott 10 August 1914 15 March 1915 #35

NOTES: (a) Post Office was located in an area of Butte Co., that became part of the new county of Harding, in 1909. (b) Arpan Post Office was reestablished in 1924; it was discontinued again around the time of World War II. (c) Post Office was located in an area of Butte Co., that became part of the new county of Perkins, in 1909. (d) Belle Fourche was, for a time, known by the name of Bellefourche (all one word). (e) Although the office was discontinued while part of Butte County, the locations of Halliburton and Lena are both in present-day Perkins County, and, thus, do not appear on the map below.




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