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Rexford is an incorporated town in Lincoln County in the far northwestern corner of Montana, near the Canadian border.

The town began in 1901 with the construction of the Great Northern Railway's branch line from Jennings, Montana, to Fernie, British Columbia.

The population of Rexford was 78 at the 2020 census.

Rexford's population peaked at 243 in the 1970 census and has declined since, falling to 105 in 2010 before reaching 78 in 2020.

Rexford incorporated in 1966 specifically so the town could negotiate with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during construction of the Libby Dam.

The original townsite stood on the Kootenai River, but when the river was dammed in the 1970s the old townsite was flooded and Rexford was moved to higher ground.

Today Rexford stands on Montana Highway 37 about 10 miles west of Eureka, on the shore of Lake Koocanusa.

Lake Koocanusa, the reservoir formed by Libby Dam in 1972, stretches 48 miles north to the Canadian border and another 42 miles into British Columbia, and it holds about 13 percent of the water in the Columbia River system.

The name Koocanusa was coined in a naming contest won by Alice Beers of Rexford, blending syllables from Kootenai, Canada, and USA.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town covers about a tenth of a square mile, all of it land, at an elevation of about 2,543 feet.