Dutton, the Wheat Capital of Montana, is an agricultural community in Teton County with a population of about 300 per the US 2020 census.
This small town is located off interstate 15, approximately 35 miles north of Great Falls in the Golden Triangle region.
With the development of the Great Northern Railway, this town, plus other small towns in Montana, came into being. Dutton, MT, started as a railway station on the Canada and Great Fall line. It was later named for Charles E. Dutton, a Great Northern Railway’s general agent working in Helena.
Dutton grew rapidly in the 1910s and 1920s. It had a print newspaper, bank, grain elevators, and other businesses during this period. The town’s newspaper, the Dutton Wheat Center News, was later sold to Fairfield Sun-Times.
Its grain elevators are still operating in the middle of the community’s wheat farms, adding to its prosperity in large part. Besides agriculture, Dutton boasts two recreational parks and a community swimming pool.