Big Sandy is a town in Chouteau County, Montana, United States. The population was 605 at the 2020 census. Big Bud 747, the largest farm tractor in the world, was located here from 1997 until 2009, and returned in 2020. The Lewis and Clark Trail, following U.S. Route 87, goes through enormous Sandy and in 2011 the town was named in a list of “Most Livable Small Towns” by Montana Outdoors magazine. Big Sandy, Montana with was the house of Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, who built enormous Sandy a skatepark.

At one get older the site of a saloon that served Missouri River freighters, the community of immense Sandy is named for nearby enormous Sandy Creek. The town began in 1887 later than the initiation of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway (later the Great Northern Railway). By in the future 1900, Cornelius J. McNamara and Thomas A. Marlow, owners of the McNamara Cattle Company, had opened the town’s first store. Homesteaders began arriving in Big Sandy in 1909, and an influx continued for a decade. Several stories tell the creek’s name. The most shimmering involves a muleskinner, “Big Sandy” Lane, who arrived one day near the gift townsite and, to his dismay, discovered the creek at flood stage. He cursed the uncooperative weather, his bad luck, and the flooded creek crossing as a result fluently that the offending stream dried up suddenly and he was practiced to cross. For decades vast Sandy’s primary landmark was the town water tower, which was visible for many miles. The water tower was dismantled in 1993. As of 2019 some local and former residents have banded together to acknowledge a particularly charismatic and recurring puddle on Main Street (which has been dubbed, simply, “Puddle”) as a supplementary and recognizable landmark of the municipality. Two of the vanguard profile natives of Big Sandy, Craig Edwards and Steve Sibra, are accompanied by those who actively promote “Puddle” as a body of water of consequence.

Big Sandy is located at 48°10′40″N 110°6′53″W / 48.17778°N 110.11472°W / 48.17778; -110.11472 (48.177872, -110.114630). U.S. Route 87 cuts through town.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total Place of 0.48 square miles (1.24 km), all land.