The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusShawmut is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Wheatland County, Montana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Shawmut had a population of 42. Shawmut has a post office with ZIP code 59078, which opened on October 27, 1885. The community is located along U.S. Route 12 and Montana Highway 3.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 42 people in 2010, 42 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1956.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Shawmut yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Shawmut’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Shawmut’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Shawmut, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Shawmut is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Shawmut has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Grace Lutheran Church of Barber in Ryegate, 6.4 miles away.
Shawmut and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.