Babb is a small unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 in Glacier County

Glacier County, Montana

-National protected areas:* Glacier National Park * Lewis and Clark National Forest -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 13,247 people, 4,304 households, and 3,245 families residing in the county. The population density was 4 people per square mile . There were 5,243 housing units...

, Montana

Montana

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, United States

United States

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, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation

Blackfeet Indian Reservation

The Blackfeet Indian Reservation or Blackfeet Nation is an Indian reservation of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana in the United States. It is located east of Glacier National Park and borders Canada to the north. Cut Bank Creek and Birch Creek make up part of its eastern and southern borders...

. It has one school (Babb School), a K-6 elementary school which had 36 students as of 2005 http://www.schoolmatters.com/app/location/q/stid=27/llid=118/stllid=347/locid=1012604/catid=-1/secid=-1/compid=-1/site=pes.

Nearby attractions include the Many Glacier Hotel

Many Glacier Hotel

Many Glacier Hotel is a historic hotel located within Glacier National Park, on the east shore of Swiftcurrent Lake. The building is designed as a series of chalets, up to four stories tall, and stretches for a substantial distance along the lakeshore. The building has a Swiss alpine theme both...

built in 1914.

Geography

Elevation: 4,524 ft.

Location: Glacier County

Latitude 48.86027908

Longitude -113.43582916

History

Established in 1905 as a post office, the town of Babb was named for Cyrus C. Babb, the engineer in charge of surveying the U.S. Reclamation Service’s St. Mary Irrigation Canal, which siphoned water from the St. Mary River into the Milk River and was one of the first Bureau of Reclamation projects in the nation.