Geyser, MT

Geyser is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Judith Basin County, Montana, United States. The 2020 census counted 78 residents. The town's name originated from the mud springs in the area in which the town was first founded. O'Hara, considered the father of Geyser, started a hotel here in 1887, and other businesses soon followed. Geyser High School 's mascot is the Wranglers; for sports though, Geyser is co-oped with nearby Stanford, Denton, and Geraldine schools to form the DGGS Bearcats. A newcomer can read Geyser through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places.

For a newcomer, Geyser comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Geyser is in northwestern Judith Basin County in a broad valley between the Highwood Mountains to the north and the Little Belt Mountains to the south. U.S. Route 87 runs along the south edge of the community, leading 46 miles northwest to Great Falls and 15 miles southeast to Stanford, the Judith Basin county seat.