Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Ennis, MT

Ennis is an incorporated town in Madison County, Montana, in the Madison River valley of the southwestern part of the state.

The population was 917 at the 2020 census, up from 838 in 2010; at the 2010 census the town had 416 households.

Ennis began in 1863, when William Ennis homesteaded a site along the Madison River just two months after gold was discovered in nearby Alder Gulch, and the town took his name.

The town is flanked by the Tobacco Root Mountains to the northwest, the Gravelly Range to the southwest, and the Madison Range to the east, at an elevation of about 4,961 feet.

The Madison River, one of the three headwater forks that form the Missouri River, runs along Ennis's eastern border, and Ennis Lake, created by the Madison Dam at the head of Bear Trap Canyon, lies about 12 miles north of town.

Ennis is one of Montana's best-known fly-fishing towns, with at least three fly shops and numerous resorts catering to anglers who come for the Madison River's rainbow and brown trout and for trips into nearby Yellowstone National Park.

Ennis is also the center of a long-standing ranching economy, with large cattle and sheep ranches spread along the Madison River valley north and south of town.

Willie's Distillery in Ennis, known for its bourbon and moonshine, is one of the growing number of craft distilleries in Montana.

In 1886 an unidentified canine creature blamed for livestock kills in the Madison Valley was shot by rancher Israel Ammon Hutchins and stuffed by a taxidermist; the mount, central to the local "Madison Monster" lore, was tracked down to a museum in Pocatello, Idaho, around 2007.

Ennis events include an annual July 4 parade with a rodeo, the Ennis on the Madison Fly Fishing Festival in August, and the Hunters Feed held the day before rifle season opens.