Frenchtown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Missoula County, Montana, United States.

[4] The settlement was cofounded around 1858 by two French Canadians moving inland with their Métis families[5] to escape turmoil further west that followed the arrival of the American federal authorities.

Jean-Baptiste Ducharme left Puget Sound during the Indian Wars (1855-1856) abandoning his land claim as his Muck Creek neighbors were arrested under martial law.

Louis Brown (anglicized name) left the Colville Valley turmoil a few years later with his Pend d'Oreille wife and their daughters.

Meanwhile the Kalispel Indian Community had moved upriver to a new locale accompanied by Jesuit priest Father Hoecken, who relocated the Saint-Ignatius mission northeast of the future Frenchtown.

[6] Frenchtown is located in northwestern Missoula County on the historic Mullan Road.

[8] South of town is the Clark Fork River and the foothills of the Bitterroot Mountains.

In September 2015, the EPA announced that it was close to an agreement for testing and environmental remediation of Frenchtown's Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. mill site.

[14] A meeting was held in February 2017 to create a Community Advisory Group to work with the Superfund grantmaking process.

[21] Missoula Community Radio owns the station KFGM-FM, which is licensed in Frenchtown.