Elmo, MT

Elmo is a census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States. The 2020 census counted 244 residents. The townsite was platted in 1917. Elmo had a dock and warehouse that served boat traffic on Flathead Lake. The short version is that Elmo carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Elmo: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Elmo is located in northwestern Lake County at the west end of the Big Arm on Flathead Lake. U.S. Route 93 passes through the community, leading north 35 miles to Kalispell and southeast 16 miles to Polson, the Lake county seat.