Person
Billings
Montana (MT)est. 1882pop. 120,000/BIL-ingz/
The meaning
“Surname”
How it got the name
Another railroad namesake: the Northern Pacific laid out the town in 1882 and honored its own president. It grew so fast that it was nicknamed the Magic City, a phrase applied to half a dozen railroad boomtowns in the same decade.
Former names
- Coulson (absorbed)
- Billings