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Geraldine is an incorporated town in Chouteau County, Montana, on Montana Highway 80 in the rich wheat-producing country of the Golden Triangle south of the Missouri River.

The townsite was laid out in 1913 by founders who had journeyed from Lewistown by Model T Ford; William and Abbie Welch were among the town's first merchants.

Geraldine was created as a stop on the Milwaukee Road and was named for Almira Geraldine Rockefeller, the wife of William Rockefeller, a director of the railroad.

The Milwaukee Road's wood-frame depot in Geraldine, built in 1914 and christened by townsfolk with a gala New Year's Eve dance, was more elaborate than most small-town depots because of the Rockefeller family's interest.

The restored Geraldine depot is a Montana Historic Site listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Geraldine Historical Committee, which acquired it in 1995, maintains it as a museum of the town's railroad history.

Geraldine's two-story Classical Revival First National Bank building, dating to about 1914, is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Passenger trains stopped serving Geraldine in 1955, and after the Milwaukee Road's collapse in 1980 the rails on the Great Falls to Geraldine section were removed, though Central Montana Rail now runs a summer tourist train from Lewistown to the town.

The 2020 census counted 207 residents in Geraldine, down from 261 in 2010; the town's population peaked at 374 in the 1950 census.

At the 2010 census, Geraldine had 110 households.

The Geraldine School District educates students from kindergarten through 12th grade, and Geraldine High School, a Class C school, fields teams known as the Tigers.