Whitetail is a small, unincorporated

Municipal corporation

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 village in northern Daniels County

Daniels County, Montana

-Economy:The main source of income for Daniels County has been cattle and dryland wheat.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 2,017 people, 892 households, and 561 families residing in the county. The population density was 1.4 people per square mile . There were 1,154 housing units...

, Montana

Montana

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, USA

United States

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. The area was first used as a camp along a cattle-driving route in the 1880s. The town grew with the arrival of the Soo Line Railroad

Soo Line Railroad

The Soo Line Railroad is the primary United States railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway , controlled through the Soo Line Corporation, and one of seven U.S. Class I railroads. Although it is named for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste...

 in 1914. The line was planned for extension all the way to Glacier National Park, but work was stopped during World War I

World War I

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 and the line never went any farther than Whitetail. At its peak the town had more than 500 residents, declining to 248 in 1940 and 125 in 1970. The town's chief industry was the manufacture of silo blowers from 1940, but the plant closed, followed by Whitetail High School in 1940 and the grade school in 1973.

The small checkpoint

Border checkpoint

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 along Montana's border with Canada

Canada

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, which serves about three travelers every day, was set to receive $15 million for upgrades under President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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's economic stimulus plan

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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. On April 1, 2011, Canada closed its border to northbound traffic through Whitetail. The US continues to allow traffic to enter southbound, but work on the port of entry has ceased.