Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Lincoln, MT

Lincoln is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western Lewis and Clark County, Montana, in the Blackfoot River valley.

Meriwether Lewis passed through the area in 1806 on his return journey to St. Louis, following the centuries-old Native American route known as the "River of the Road to the Buffalo."

In 1865, David Culp and Thomas Patterson staked a claim in a gulch they named Abe Lincoln Gulch in honor of the recently assassinated president, and the mining camp that formed at its mouth took the shortened name Lincoln.

Gold discoveries in the mid-1860s brought miners to camps along the Blackfoot River, and Lincoln grew into a commercial center for mining, logging and recreation, gaining a continuously operating post office in 1887.

The Lincoln Community Hall, built in 1918, and the Hotel Lincoln, built in 1914, are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lincoln drew national attention on April 3, 1996, when federal agents arrested Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber," at his remote cabin about five miles south of town on Stemple Pass Road.

On July 6, 2017, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck about six miles south of Lincoln, the eighth-strongest earthquake ever recorded in Montana.

The 2020 census counted 998 residents in the Lincoln CDP, down slightly from 1,013 in 2010.

At the 2010 census, the CDP's residents lived in 507 households, and there were 846 housing units spread across the valley.

The CDP covers about 18 square miles of the Blackfoot Valley at an elevation of roughly 4,540 feet, and its ZIP code is 59639.