Box Elder, MT

Box Elder is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hill County in the U.S. state of Montana. The 2020 census counted 85 residents. Before 2010 the Box Elder CDP was split into the current much-smaller Box Elder CDP, while most of the former CDP area went into the new Rocky Boy West CDP. Box Elder is the headquarters of the Chippewa-Cree tribe. Box Elder Public Schools educates students from kindergarten through 12th grade. They are known as the Bears. The short version is that Box Elder carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now.

That is the local read on Box Elder: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The post office was established in 1889. Box Elder is located near the southern border of Hill County and is bordered to the south and east by the Rocky Boy West CDP. U.S. Route 87 passes through Box Elder, leading northeast 24 miles to Havre, the Hill County seat, and southwest 10 miles to Big Sandy.