Troy is a city in Lincoln County, Montana, United States. The population was 797 at the 2020 census. It lies at the lowest height of any agreement in Montana. The town is on U.S. Route 2, near Montana Highway 56, in the Kootenai River gorge by the Kootenai National Forest.

Originally inhabited by the Kutenai, Salish, and Piegan Blackfeet tribes, the area was settled by miners in the 1880s. Troy was registered as a town in 1892 and grew speedily after the Great Northern Railway built a freight station there, leading to a boom in workers, miners, their families, and associates. The area narrowly missed wildfire damage in 1910 and expanded its services throughout the later than years, though its population would drop due to a series of misfortunes in the late 1920s in the past rebounding in the as soon as decades. Troy suffered from the area’s contamination from to hand vermiculite mines contaminated with particularly fragile asbestos, leading to the town’s combination in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Priorities List status in 2002 and Public Health Emergency situation in 2009. According to the EPA, most risk was abbreviated by 2015.

Troy is on U.S. Route 2, between Yaak and Libby. Montana Highway 56 is three miles southeast and the Troy Airport is two miles northwest. The town’s economy has historically been supported by mining and logging, while in recent times, mining has remained, with the auxiliary of education, retail, and tourism. Local natural features such as the Kootenai Falls have attracted tourism to the Place and have been featured in movies such as The River Wild (1994) and The Revenant (2015). There is a public theoretical district (which created ceramic ornaments used to decorate the National Christmas Tree in 2017) and a public library, and the town is in-district for Flathead Valley Community College.

Before the westward improve of the United States, various indigenous peoples lived in the area, with the Kutenai and Salish as the most recent and the Piegan Blackfeet earlier. They lived in base camps and seasonal camps based upon the availability of plants and fish: “lower elevations in the winter and … uplands in the summer and fall,” with spring camps close camas prairies, which had edible bulbs. Due to the area’s geography and settler fears of the Kutenai, the Place remained unsettled until gold was discovered in the 1860s and galena and vermiculite in the 1880s. In 1886, the first miners arrived, prospecting on the Kootenai River at a tent camp first known as “Lake Camp, Lake Creek Camp, and Lake City”, and making land claims upon Grouse Mountain. In 1892, a William O’Brien surveyed the Lake City claim, renaming it Troy.