Talk:Scouting in Montana
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Scouting in Montana[edit]
Would Wikipedians entertain the idea of having the Councils-by-state sections recategorized to "Scouting in Arizona", "Scouting in Washington", and so on, rather than a list of every council and district? The reason I would like this considered is
1) no other country's Scouting articles are divided into such minute details (except for The Scout Association of Hong Kong, and really, is that much minutiae important or interesting to the reader?)
2) many councils that a reader may choose to look up, like the Fitchburg Area Council of Massachusetts or the Vigilante Area Council of Montana, went extinct 30+ years ago, yet may be of interest in a more state-based article
3) many states like Alaska share a communal Scout history, only fairly recently being broken into smaller councils, others like North Dakota had several merged into one, and some Scouting histories are better told encompassing an entire state. The fact that Scouts in California prior to the charter of the BSA were the youth arm of the California Highway Patrol, or the fact that Connecticut, while having only eight counties, has had 22 councils over the course of its history, would be well-included in a statewide article. Kintetsubuffalo 01:27, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Historical council information to be folded in[edit]
Historical council information to be folded in -Kintetsubuffalo (talk • contribs) 11:56, September 20, 2006
- Hook, James; Franck, Dave; Austin, Steve (1982). An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches with Valuation.
Montana 316 Helena Council1919 1925 changed name to Lewis and Clark Area 316 1925Montana 316 Lewis and Clark Area Council1925 1926 changed name to Elkhorn Area 316 1926Montana 316 Elkhorn Area Council1926 1931 ended 1931Montana 317 Kalispell Council1922 1923 changed name to Glacier Park Area 317 1923Montana 317 Glacier Park Area Council1923 1927 ended 1927Montana 318 Lewiston Council1918 1922 changed name to Central Montana 318 1922Montana 318 Central Montana Council1922 1924 ended 1924Montana 319 Park County Council1920 1923 changed name to Park and Sweetgrass Counties 319 1923Montana 319 Park and Sweetgrass Counties Council1923 1924 changed name to Yellowstone Area 319 1924Montana 319 Yellowstone CouncilArea 1924 1926 Direct Service 1926Montana 321 Custer County Council1920 1924 changed name to Powder River Area 321 1924Montana 321 Powder River Area Council1924 1926 Direct Service 1926Montana 320 Missoula Council1918 1922 changed name to Missoula County 320 1922Montana 314 Deer Lodge County Council1920 1924 changed name to Deer Lodge Area 314 1924Montana 315 Great Falls Council1915 1925 changed name to Great Falls Area 315 1925Montana 314 Deer Lodge Area Council1924 1926 changed name to Deer Lodge, Granite, and Powell 314 1926Montana 320 Missoula County Council1922 1926 changed name to Western Montana 320 1926Montana 313 Butte City Council1918 1927 changed name to Silver Bow 313 1927Montana 314 Deer Lodge, Granite, and Powell Council1926 1928 merged into Silver Bow 313 1928Montana 315 Great Falls Area Council1925 1929 changed name to North Central Montana 315 1929Montana 313 Silver Bow Council1927 1944 changed name to Vigilante 313 1944Montana 313 Vigilante Council1944 1973 merged into Montana 315 1973Montana 318 Yellowstone Valley Council1928 1973 merged into Montana 315 1973Montana 320 Western Montana Council1924 1973 merged into Montana 315 1973Montana 315 North Central Montana Council1929 1974 merged into Montana 315 1974Montana 315 Montana Council1974
Historical info[edit]
The early days are heavily slanted to Butte. Troops were started earlier than that, and evidence is available in the Montana Newspaper Archive snachodog (talk) 16:41, 23 April 2019 (UTC)