Description
Located in the southeastern portion of Powell County near its boundary with Lewis and Clark County, 1.6 km (1 mi) SW of Mullan Pass.
History
Blossburg was the name of a station along the Northern Pacific Railroad and was named by a Mr. Wicks, a mining engineer, after a Pennsylvania coal mining town spelled Blosburg. This community was formerly called Mullan, named for Captain John Mullan who was a member of the Stevens Survey of 1853. That Survey explored Montana in search of routes for a transcontinental railroad. The name was later changed to Blossburg because mail shipments kept being inadvertently sent to Mullan, Idaho.