Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, USA is a city and its address is Missoula, Missoula, Montana USA, located at latitude 46.862633, longitude -114.011593.
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Missoula is a city in and the county seat of Missoula County, Montana
The first inhabitants of the Missoula area were American Indians from the Salish tribe. The name "Missoula" is thought to come from the Salish (also known as Flathead) word nmesuletkʷ, the Salish name for the Clark Fork river . ..... word translates approximately "place of freezing/cold liquid", or more roughly "cold water" ... to refer to glacial lake Missoula
There were no permanent white settlements in the Missoula Valley until 1860 when C. P. Higgins and Francis Worden opened a trading post called the Hellgate Village on the Blackfoot River near the eastern edge of the valley. It was followed by a sawmill and a flourmill, which the settlers called "Missoula Mills". The first post office in the area was named Hellgate and was established November 25, 1862, with Worden as the first postmaster. The name was changed to Missoula, May 14, 1866.
