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So named in an attempt to attract settlers, Richland County is one of
56 counties in Montana. Richland County is Montana’s twenty-first most
populous county, with an estimated 9,295 residents as of July 1st,
2006. Sidney, the county seat, is the state’s seventeenth largest city,
with a population estimated at 4,804 in 2006. Other towns in Richland
County include Crane, Fairview, Lambert, and Savage.
Oil
production and agriculture are widely recognized as two of the staples
of Richland County’s economy. Much of Richland County is located in the
Bakken Oil Zone, and oil pumping and exploration takes place throughout
the area. The confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers lies
close to Richland County, creating a 75-mile-long irrigated valley in
which grains, sugar beets, corn, beans, and hay are produced. The town
of Fairview is known as the “Sugar Beet Capital,” of both Montana and
North Dakota.
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