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HAVRE, a city of northern Montana, U.S.A., 35m. from the Canadian border, on the Milk river and Federal highway 2 ; a division point on the Great Northern railway, and the county seat of Hill county. The population was 1,033 in i9oo; 5,429 in 1920; and it was 6,372 in 193o by the Federal census. It has railroad shops, a creamery, a flour mill, and a cold storage plant and is an important shipping point for wheat, live stock and poultry. Irrigation works are under construction in the vicinity. The city was settled about 188o and was incorporated in 1896.