Ingomar, Montana

View northward along the main street of Ingomar, Montana, September 2006.

Ingomar is a small unincorporated community in southeastern Rosebud County, Montana, United States, along the route of U.S. Route 12.^[1] The town was established in 1908, as a station stop on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, then under construction in Montana. Although the land around Ingomar attracted numerous homesteaders during the decade following the railroad's completion, the region proved to be far too arid and inhospitable for intensive agricultural use, and by the 1920s the town was in decline. The railroad through the area was abandoned in 1980, and only a handful of people remain in Ingomar today.

Three of the town's surviving buildings: the Ingomar Public School, J. A. Bookman General Store, and Wiley, Clark & Greening Bank have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notes

↑ "Ingomar, Montana". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

Jersey Lilly Restaurant in Ingomar, MT.

Town gas pump in Ingomar, MT.

Municipalities and communities of Rosebud County, Montana, United States

County seat: Forsyth

Cities	Colstrip Forsyth

CDPs	Ashland Birney Lame Deer Rosebud

Other unincorporated communities	Angela Bascom Carterville Hathaway Ingomar Sumatra Vananda

Indian reservation	Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation‡

Ghost town	Hibbard

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 46°34′36″N 107°22′20″W / 46.57667°N 107.37222°W / 46.57667; -107.37222

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