Wibaux County, Montana

Wibaux County is in eastern Montana with North Dakota to the east. Named after a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt (Pierre Wibaux, a cattle baron from North Dakota), Wibaux County contains 889 square miles of land and 1 square mile of water. The county seat is the town of Wibaux.

According to a local story, the town of Wibaux was originally named Mingusville. One day Pierre Wibaux's cowboys surrounded the town and refused to let anyone come or go from the town until all the townspeople signed a petition changing the name of the town from Mingusville to Wibaux. Today, a statue of Pierre Wibaux stands atop a hill west of town, commemorating the fact that his ashes were spread in that area after his death.