Hinsdale, MT

Hinsdale is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Valley County, Montana, United States. The 2020 census counted 193 residents. The community is located on the Milk River and U.S. Route 2, with Montana Highway 537 headed north out of town and South Bench Road crossing the railroad tracks and running south of town. Native American tribes lived in the local area for thousands of years before European colonization. The main employment of Hinsdale is agriculture. Most farms and ranches in Hinsdale are family owned and generational, in that they are passed from one generation to the next. Hinsdale Public Schools teaches grades K-12, serving elementary, middle school, and high school.

Hinsdale's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Montana setting. The local scoop is how Hinsdale's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. This colonization brought horses which greatly improved life on the prairie. Amtrak 's Empire Builder, which operates between Seattle / Portland and Chicago, passes through the town on BNSF tracks, but makes no stop. The nearest station is located in Glasgow, 29 miles to the southeast.