Bigfork, Montana

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• Cut Your Own Christmas Tree
  

  Christmas tree permits from the Flathead National Forest are available for $5 each from Forest Service Offices in Kalispell, Hungry Horse and Bigfork, and from a variety of vendors across the valley.

• Bridge is one more link in Fish Trails system:
  

  David Erickson / Whitefish Pilot -- Now that the Christmas lights are up, downtown Whitefish glows with color after the sun goes down.

• School construction months ahead of schedule
  

  School officials are anticipating being able to move into the new additions to Bigfork Elementary School shortly after Christmas break, more than two months ahead of schedule.Bigfork School District ...

• Churches, community buoy food bank
  

  With the countdown to Thanksgiving basket distribution being counted in hours rather than days or weeks, volunteers streamed into the Bigfork Food Pantry on Monday bringing baskets and food.

• Bigfork group sends care packages to Iraq, Afghanistan
  

  On the eve of Bigfork's Day of Decorating, about 50 people showed up to the Flathead Lake Lodge to help pack boxes to be shipped to three Army units stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

• When all else fails...
  

  What would happen in Bigfork if depleted oil reserves or some other crisis led to sky-high gas prices, shortages and lapses in electrical power? Edd Blackler, Edmund Fitzgerald, Catherine Haug and Sally Janover ...

• Flathead Lake Brewing: Great View, Great People, Great Beer
  

  The Flathead Lake taproom. Photo Courtesy of Flathead Lake Brewing. Below: The easy-to-find brewery along Hwy.

• Across the Big Sky
  

  MISSOULA - A Bigfork man who killed a grizzly bear received a $135 fine and a suspended jail sentence of six months.

• Date set for Bigfork football player death trial
  

  A federal lawsuit over the death of a Bigfork high school student who died last year will go to trial in February of 2010.

• Bigfork man sentenced for selling cocaine
  

  A 32-year-old Bigfork man convicted of selling cocaine in the Flathead Valley was sentenced Wednesday to more than three years in a federal prison.

• Hunter penalized for shooting grizzly bear
  

  A Bigfork man who killed a grizzly bear received a $135 fine and a suspended jail sentence of six months.

• Hunter mistakenly kills grizzly
  

  Grizzlies are faring much better on the football field this year than are grizzlies in the wild.

• C.F. plan boundary may shrink
  

  Flathead County commissioners are proposing a change to the county's interlocal agreement with Columbia Falls that could set the stage for ending the city's planning jurisdiction at its city limits.

• A New Cup of Tea for Kalispell
  

  Chris' Tea Cottage in the historic Museum at Central School in Kalispell. - Lido Vizzutti/Flathead Beacon Chris' Tea Cottage is located in an old principal's office in the Museum at Central School in downtown ...

• The Bigfork Eagle Home Page
  

  After hearing more than an hour of discussion from parents, coaches, community members and players from the Bigfork High School volleyball team, the Bigfork School Board voted not to appeal the Montana High ...

• Republicans dominate Flathead Valley races
  

  The outcome of the 2008 general election was anything but boring on the national and local levels.

• Bigfork High mulling switch to Class B
  

  Bigfork High School received notice last week from the Montana High School Association that the school's athletics and activities programs have been recommended to compete in Class B competitions, rather than ...

• Bigfork's green box site getting trashed
  

  There's a fine line between trash and trashed, and the Flathead County Green Box Site on Highway 83 in Bigfork is often straddling that narrow distinction.

• Wednesday: Avoiding Helena Gridlock, Baucus Health Care, Obama Bald Dog
  

  Good morning and happy birthday to the sculptor of "The Thinker," Auguste Rodin .

City Description

Bigfork is a census-designated place (CDP) in Flathead County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,421 at the 2000 census. Bigfork is located at 48°3′55″N 114°4′54″W / 48.06528, -114.08167 (48.065214, -114.081700). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.9 square miles (15.3 km²), of which, 5.8 square miles (14.9 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km²) of it (2.87%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,421 people, 652 households, and 410 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 247.1 people per square mile (95.4/km²). There were 962 housing units at an average density of 167.3/sq mi (64.6/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 97.33% White, 0.35% African American, 1.06% Native American, 0.35% Asian, 0.14% Pacific Islander, 0.07% from other races, and 0.70% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.48% of the population. There were 652 households out of which 18.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.4% were married couples living together, 4.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.0% were non-families. 33.3% of all households were made up of

City Contained By:

• Flathead County
• Montana

Timezones:

• Mountain Time Zone

Size:

• 15.280929851 km squared

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