Silver Star, MT

Silver Star is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Madison County, Montana, United States. The 2020 census counted 46 residents. Silver Star is located on Montana Highway 41, 10 miles north-northeast of Twin Bridges and 16 miles southwest of Whitehall. Green Campbell made the first gold discovery in this area in 1866. A newcomer can read Silver Star through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Silver Star comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Silver Star is in northwestern Madison County, on the west bank of the Jefferson River, one of the three headwater tributaries of the Missouri River. The Highland Mountains rise to the west of the community. Silver Star includes the Highland Mountains.