Wolf Point Map
Wolf Point is a city in and the county seat of Roosevelt County, Montana, United States. The population was 2,621 at the 2010 census. It is the largest community on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Wolf Point is the home of the annual Wild Horse Stampede, held every year during the second weekend of July. Wolf Point's Stampede is the oldest rodeo in Montana, and has been called the "Grandaddy of all Montana Rodeos". In 2003, Wolf Point was named the official site of the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame.
One of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs that put people to work across the nation was the Works Progress Administration. This agency was responsible for the construction of the Roosevelt County Courthouse, an airport (the airplane hangar), a golf course, and a library. The Montana Highway Department on Front Street was built around this time. WPA project Fort Peck Dam created electricity, and the WPA erected electric lines in Wolf Point. Many people learned how to drive a car for the first time working on the Fort Peck Dam and roads were built around Wolf Point. In the WPA records, an armory is listed in the same line with roads. The armory and barracks were near the courthouse, today's library, and the Coliseum. Without the WPA funding, the Coliseum, which was torn down to make way for the new Senior Center, was an option for a courthouse. Less identifiable projects created in Wolf Point under Roosevelt include recreation, water wells, and storage sheds.
Wolf Point is located in north-eastern Montana at 48°5?29?N 105°38?33?W / 48.09139°N 105.6425°W / 48.09139; -105.6425 (48.091303, -105.642538), in the wide, shallow valley of the Missouri River, just below its confluence with Wolf Creek. Wolf Point is situated on the High Plains of eastern Montana. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²), all of it land.
Nearby cities include Frazer.