Wolf Point is on the main line of the Burlington Northern Railroad and is served by both Amtrak and Big Sky Airlines. U.S. Highway 2 passes through Wolf Point providing an East-West route and Montana Highway 13 comes from the South across the mighty Missouri and continues on North to the Canadian border.

Wolf Point Schools

The Wolf Point School District consists of the Elementary District #45 which encompasses the city of Wolf Point and all land north of the Daniel's County line and west to Valley County. The eastern border is about four miles east of Wolf Point. High School District #45A unites District #3 with #45 to about double its geographic size.

The school organization provides for the operation of two elementary schools and a junior high/senior high school.

The Southside Elementary School houses grades K-3 and has one principal, twenty teachers and five classified staff. The Northside Elementary School houses grades 4-6 and has one principal, fourteen teachers and four classified staff. There are 552 students in these two schools (student/teacher ratio: 16.2:1). In addition, there are eight professional staff and one classified person shared between the Southside and Northside schools. Professional staff include physical education, music, library, guidance, home school coordinators and a speech therapist.

The Junior/Senior High School has one principal, a vice principal, a guidance counselor, thirty-one teachers and fourteen classified staff. There are 148 students in grades 7-8 and 314 students in grades 9-12 (student/teacher ratio: 14.9:1).

There are nine professional staff in the Special Education program. Seven people work in the Indian Education program, five people in Chapter 1, and one person directs the community education services.

A Brief History of Wolf Point, Montana

The history of the Wolf Point area goes back many years to when a traveler on the river, in 1842, noted in his journals the many wolves sighted near old Wolf Point. Several fur trading forts were operated in the area by the American Fur Company. One was Fort Charles, located near the present site of the Missouri River Bridge. Other sites have been discovered, but the names are unknown. In the 1860's and 1870's when the river steamboat was the principle mode of travel, Wolf Point was a refueling point as well as an Indian trading post. During the 1870's Winter trappers stacked their wolf hides along the river to wait for spring and for the steamboats to transport their cargo to markets in the East. The name "Wolf Point" was here to stay.

The little trading post grew into a small hamlet of several hundred in population. The railroad came to the area in the late 1880's and soon the romantic river boats were gone forever. In 1912, the Fort Peck Indian Reservation was opened to homesteaders and the town of Wolf Point moved from the river bank to the railroad, about one mile North. Today, the town has grown into a modern shopping center and is known throughout the United States for its "Wild Horse Stampede". The stampede is Montana's oldest and best rodeo and is held during the second weekend of July each year.