Official Name: | Stryker, Montana |
Pushpin Map: | Montana#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Stryker |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Montana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Lincoln |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 2.67 |
Area Land Km2: | 2.67 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.03 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.03 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 25 |
Population Density Km2: | 9.37 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 24.27 |
Timezone: | Mountain (MST) |
Utc Offset: | -7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
Elevation Ft: | 3297 |
Coordinates: | 48.6742°N -114.7703°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 59933[2] |
Area Code: | 406 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 791609 |
Blank1 Name: | FIPS code |
Blank1 Info: | 30-71575 |
Stryker is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lincoln County, Montana, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 26.[3] Stryker has the 59933 ZIP code.
Named for local homesteaders, Stryker served as a stage station on the Kalispell–Fort Steele (British Columbia) trail. A forest fire swept through the town in 1926. Stryker’s railroad depot closed with the construction of Libby Dam.[4]
Stryker is located in northeastern Lincoln County on U.S. Route 93, southeast of Eureka and northwest of Kalispell. It is located just south of a drainage divide separating the Stillwater River, which runs just east of Stryker and flows southeast to the Flathead River, from Summit Creek, which flows northwest and is part of the Tobacco River watershed flowing to the Kootenai River. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Stryker CDP has an area of 2.7sqkm, all land.[5]