Rudyard, Montana

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

[3] The community was established as a switching station on the Great Northern Railway.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.93 square miles (2.4 km2), all land.

[3] Rudyard has the distinction of being the only community in the contiguous United States that sits atop a non-oceanic antipode, that being one of the Kerguelen Islands.

The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.18% White, 0.73% Native American, and 1.09% from two or more races.

Amtrak’s Empire Builder, which operates between Seattle/Portland and Chicago, passes through the town on BNSF tracks, but makes no stop.

Hill County map