Talk:Scouting in Montana

Scouting in Montana
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
Historical council information to be folded in -Kintetsubuffalo (talk • contribs) 11:56, September 20, 2006


 * Montana 316 Helena Council 1919 1925 changed name to Lewis and Clark Area 316 1925
 * Montana 316 Lewis and Clark Area Council 1925 1926 changed name to Elkhorn Area 316 1926
 * Montana 316 Elkhorn Area Council 1926 1931 ended 1931
 * Montana 317 Kalispell Council 1922 1923 changed name to Glacier Park Area 317 1923
 * Montana 317 Glacier Park Area Council 1923 1927 ended 1927
 * Montana 318 Lewiston Council 1918 1922 changed name to Central Montana 318 1922
 * Montana 318 Central Montana Council 1922 1924 ended 1924
 * Montana 319 Park County Council 1920 1923 changed name to Park and Sweetgrass Counties 319 1923
 * Montana 319 Park and Sweetgrass Counties Council 1923 1924 changed name to Yellowstone Area 319 1924
 * Montana 319 Yellowstone Council Area 1924 1926 Direct Service 1926
 * Montana 321 Custer County Council 1920 1924 changed name to Powder River Area 321 1924
 * Montana 321 Powder River Area Council 1924 1926 Direct Service 1926
 * Montana 320 Missoula Council 1918 1922 changed name to Missoula County 320 1922
 * Montana 314 Deer Lodge County Council 1920 1924 changed name to Deer Lodge Area 314 1924
 * Montana 315 Great Falls Council 1915 1925 changed name to Great Falls Area 315 1925
 * Montana 314 Deer Lodge Area Council 1924 1926 changed name to Deer Lodge, Granite, and Powell 314 1926
 * Montana 320 Missoula County Council 1922 1926 changed name to Western Montana 320 1926
 * Montana 313 Butte City Council 1918 1927 changed name to Silver Bow 313 1927
 * Montana 314 Deer Lodge, Granite, and Powell Council 1926 1928 merged into Silver Bow 313 1928
 * Montana 315 Great Falls Area Council 1925 1929 changed name to North Central Montana 315 1929
 * Montana 313 Silver Bow Council 1927 1944 changed name to Vigilante 313 1944
 * Montana 313 Vigilante Council 1944 1973 merged into Montana 315 1973
 * Montana 318 Yellowstone Valley Council 1928 1973 merged into Montana 315 1973
 * Montana 320 Western Montana Council 1924 1973 merged into Montana 315 1973
 * Montana 315 North Central Montana Council 1929 1974 merged into Montana 315 1974
 * Montana 315 Montana Council 1974

Historical info
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)
 * Why don't you add it? --evrik (talk) 02:00, 2 August 2022 (UTC)