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Crow Reservation Information 2002, Montana

				The Crow Indian Reservation, the largest of Montana’s reservations, is located mainly in Big Horn County in south central Montana and is bordered by Wyoming to the south. The reservation’s northwest boundary is about ten miles from Billings, Montana. Three mountain ranges, the Big Horn, Pryor and Wolf, provide the reservation with varied topography from mountains to plains. The reservation also has productive irrigated valleys along the Big Horn and Little Big Horn Rivers and Pryor Creek. The reservation boundaries were finally fixed by 1904. The Crow Indian Tribe adopted a written constitution in 1948.
Characteristics	Unit	Total 1/	American Indian Operators 2/	Characteristics	Unit	Total 1/	American Indian Operators 2/
Farms	Number	377	138	Operators	Number	559	176
Land in Farms   Reservation Acres in Farms	Acres Acres	1,989,372 1,495,111	838,738 787,309	Operator Gender	Male Female	424 135	134 42
Total Cropland	Farms Acres	257 286,824	82 25,828	Primary Occupation	Farming Other	341 218	69 107
Harvested Cropland	Farms Acres	218 136,428	59 11,148	All Operators	Average Age	50.9	51.2
Irrigated Land	Farms Acres	127 43,060	25 5,785	Operators Living on Reservations		398	171
All Wheat for Grain	Farms Acres Bushels	69 75,488 1,461,392	5 2,840 40,800	Barley for Grain	Farms Acres Bushels	38 8,264 398,689	-- -- --
Forage Land	Farms Acres Tons, dry	193 43,052 77,065	56 8,287 10,859
Horses and Ponies Inventory	Farms Number	262 3,031	121 1,571	Horses and Ponies Sold	Farms Number	57 183	27 81
Cattle and Calves Inventory	Farms Number	252 57,297	76 9,842	Cattle and Calves Sold	Farms Number	240 67,293	67 8,032
1/ Data are for farms and ranches reporting at least some agricultural production on reservations during 2002. 2/ At least one of the reported operators (out of a maximum of three) is self-identified as American Indian either exclusively or in combination with other races.