Liberty County, Montana

Founding: 1920
Parent counties: Chouteau and Hill
Namesake: The American ideal of liberty
Seat: Chester (1920–)
Land area: 1,430 square miles
Population (2020): 1,959
Population (historic): 2,416 (1920); 2,198 (1930); 2,209 (1940)
Periods of population growth: pre-1920; 1950s; 2000s
Subdivisions: One town; five CDPs
National Register listings: Three
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 278 (24.1%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 38.3%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 4.3%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 4.1%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $748
Average outbuilding value (1930): $677

Average farmhouse size (1940): 4 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 515
Average farm size (1920): 192.7 acres
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Chester

 
Namesake: Chester, Pennsylvania
Founding: circa 1891 (founding); 1895 (post office); 1910 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 847
Population (historic): 402 (1920); 387 (1930); 548 (1940)
Periods of population growth: pre-1920; 1930–1960; 1970s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 106 (18%)
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