Flaxville is a town in Daniels County, Montana, United States.
[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.10 square miles (0.26 km2), all land.
[5] Whitetail Reservoir, a state fishing access site, is located "7 miles north of Flaxville on Highway 511.
Merv Blevins, who farms in Bengough, Saskatchewan and Flaxville, Montana, describes the K-Y Trail as follows: “The road that runs from Regina down to Miles City follows Highway 34 [which becomes Highway 511 in Montana] ... (it was used) when they were doing cattle drives and things back in the day, but it’s also used by our Native Americans to come up to the turtle effigy that’s located just south east of Big Beaver, that’s a holy sight for them and they come there and they have a sweat lodge there every once in awhile and they use the port of Big Beaver.”[7] "Flaxville was originally founded as Boyer, about 2.5 miles southwest of where the town is now.
"[8] It was named after "the Henry Boyer family at whose home the early railroad construction workers were fed.
"[9] The current town was founded in 1913 following the arrival of a Great Northern Railway branch line that eventually ran from Bainville to Opheim.
[8] It is home to the Daniels County Chapter of Pheasants Forever, The Barn Theater, Country Roads Mini Horses, and the R-Y Trail Bar.
[11][12][13] Printmaker Don Bunse (1934 - 1994), who taught at University of Montana and developed collagraphy with a group of artists, was born in Flaxville.
"He was a delegate for the University of Montana in the first academic art exchange between the United States and the People's Republic of China.