Fort Benton, MT Facts, Population, Income, Demographics, Economy

Population (total): Population in 2017: 1,451 (0% urban, 100% rural). >Population change since 2000: -9.0%

Population (male): 684

Median Age: 58.7 years

Cost of Living: March 2019 cost of living index in Fort Benton: 87.1 (less than average, U.S. average is 100)

Poverty (breakdown):

Sex Offenders: According to our research of Montana and other state lists, there were 6 registered sex offenders living in Fort Benton, Montana as of January 15, 2021. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Fort Benton is 225 to 1.>

Ancestries: Ancestries: German (32.1%), Norwegian (16.2%), European (9.8%), English (9.5%), American (8.7%), Irish (5.3%).

Elevation: 2632 feet

Land Area: 2.09 square miles.

Median Incomes:
      Estimated median household income in 2017: $47,537 (it was $29,406 in 2000)
      Estimated per capita income in 2017: $25,499 (it was $14,861 in 2000)
      Estimated median house or condo value in 2017: $171,664 (it was $71,100 in 2000) Fort Benton:$171,664MT:$231,300

Races:
      White alone - 1,419 - 96.9%
      Two or more races - 25 - 1.7%
      Hispanic - 9 - 0.6%
      American Indian alone - 7 - 0.5%
      Asian alone - 3 - 0.2%
      Black alone - 1 - 0.07%

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Substance Abuse Mental Health Safety Administration (https://www.samhsa.gov/)

US Drug Enforcement Administration (https://www.dea.gov/)

Office of Drug alcohol Policy Control (https://www.transportation.gov/odapc)

Blood Lab Tests

Lab/Blood Testing Centers
Fort Benton, MT

Accredited Drug Testing in Fort Benton, Montana provides confidential laboratory analyzed testing services at our Fort Benton, MT testing locations for medical and personal testing purposes for health, prevention and early detection of diseases. Patients can directly schedule a laboratory test including blood and urinalysis at multiple laboratory/blood testing centers in Fort Benton, Montana and the surrounding areas. Same day service is available and most testing centers in the Fort Benton, MT area are within minutes of your home or office.

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Testing services include physician referral, collection of the specimen, complete laboratory analysis and confidential and secure result reporting.

Common Lab/Blood Tests Performed in Fort Benton, MT Include:

  • Lipid/Cholesterol Test
  • STD Testing
  • Diabetes Testing
  • Thyroid Testing
  • Hemoglobin A1C Testing
  • Complete Blood Count (CBC) Testing
  • Hepatitis Testing
  • Basic Metabolic Testing
  • Liver Function Testing
  • Hormone Testing

** Patients who have high insurance deductibles, co-pays or do not have insurance can access important health and wellness testing by scheduling/Ordering a confidential clinical test through Accredited Drug Testing By Phone or On-line.

The process to schedule a lab/blood test in Fort Benton, Montana is fast and easy!

Step 1: Schedule/Order your test online at www.accrediteddrugtesting.com/lab-test-order or call our scheduling department at 800-221-4291. You do not need to visit a doctor to order a test.

Step 2: Provide confidential and secure patient information including the type of test, zip code of the location area you would like to take the test, make payment and you will receive a patient registration form by email where you can immediately proceed to the testing center. Same day service is available. Your test registration pass will have the testing location address and hours of operation.

Step 3: After your test has been analyzed by one of our national CLIA and FDA certified laboratories (Quest/ LabCorp) your results will be sent through a confidential, secure and encrypted portal to the email address that you provided. In the event that the test is non-negative, abnormal or other circumstances, a consultation with the referring physician is available.

Blood Testing Fort Benton, Montana

A blood test performed in Fort Benton, MT is a laboratory analysis performed on a blood sample that is usually extracted from a vein in the arm using a hypodermic needle, or via fingerprick. Multiple tests for specific blood components, such as a glucose test or a cholesterol test, are often grouped together into one test panel called a blood panel or blood work. Blood tests are often used in health care to determine physiological and biochemical states, such as disease, mineral content, pharmaceutical drug effectiveness, and organ function. Typical clinical blood panels include a basic metabolic panel or a complete blood count. Blood tests are also used in drug tests to detect drug abuse.

A basic metabolic panel measures sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), magnesium, creatinine, glucose, and sometimes calcium. Tests that focus on cholesterol levels can determine LDL and HDL cholesterol levels, as well as triglyceride levels.

Some tests, such as those that measure glucose or a lipid profile, require fasting (or no food consumption) eight to twelve hours prior to the drawing of the blood sample.

For the majority of tests, blood is usually obtained from the patient's vein. Other specialized tests, such as the arterial blood gas test, require blood extracted from an artery. Blood gas analysis of arterial blood is primarily used to monitor carbon dioxide and oxygen levels related to pulmonary function, but is also used to measure blood pH and bicarbonate levels for certain metabolic conditions.[While the regular glucose test is taken at a certain point in time, the glucose tolerance test involves repeated testing to determine the rate at which glucose is processed by the body.

Laboratory Testing In Fort Benton, Montana

Our laboratory testing locations in Fort Benton, MT provide a wide range of certified laboratory test analysis. Some test results can be affected by certain foods and medications. For this reason, people may be asked to not eat or drink for several hours before a laboratory test or to delay taking medications until after the test.

Common Lab Tests Performed at our Fort Benton, Montana Testing Facilities Include:

  • Complete Blood Count. This test, also known as a CBC, is the most common blood test performed.
  • Prothrombin Time. Also known as PT and Pro Time, this test measures how long it takes blood to clot.
  • Basic Metabolic Panel.
  • Comprehensive Metabolic Panel.
  • Lipid Panel.
  • Liver Panel.
  • Thyroid Stimulating Hormone.
  • Hemoglobin A1C.

All laboratory testing that is performed on humans in the United States (except testing done in clinical trials and other types of human research) is regulated through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), which were passed by Congress in 1988. The CLIA laboratory certification program is administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in conjunction with the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CLIA ensures that laboratory staff are appropriately trained and supervised and that testing laboratories have quality control programs in place so that test results are accurate and reliable.

STD Testing Fort Benton, Montana

Our local Fort Benton, Montana STD testing centers provide multiple STD tests for individuals who may have been exposed to or showing symptoms of an STD. Millions of Americans have some form of an STD and our testing is provided in a confidential manner. STD tests may be ordered for one specific type of test or you may order a multiple panel test which includes several STD tests. STD stands for Sexually Transmitted Disease, also known as STI or Sexually Transmitted Infection, meaning that these diseases are most often, but not exclusively, spread by sexual intercourse.

STDs are passed from one person to another through sexual activity which can include vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse and/or anal intercourse. Though not as common, STDs can also be transmitted through intimate physical contact such as heavy petting.

STDs do not always cause symptoms, or they may only cause mild symptoms. This makes it very possible to have an infection and not know it. Therefore, if you are sexually active it is important to get tested at least once a year.

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Local Area Info: Fort Benton, Montana

Fort Benton is a city in and the county seat of Chouteau County, Montana, United States. Established in 1846, a full generation before the U.S. Civil War, Fort Benton is one of the oldest settlements in the American West; in contrast, many other places—including large cities today—were settled in the late 1860s, 1870s, or 1880s. The city's waterfront area, the most important aspect of its 19th-century growth, was designated the Fort Benton Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, in 1961.

Established in 1846 by Alexander Culbertson, who worked for Auguste Chouteau and Pierre Chouteau, Jr. of St. Louis, the original Fort was the last fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River, the fort became an important economic center. For 30 years, the port attracted steamboats carrying goods, merchants, gold miners and settlers, coming from New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis, Hannibal, Bismarck, Kansas City, etc. As the terminus for the 642-mile-long Mullan Road, completed by the US Army in 1860, and at the head of navigation of the Missouri River, Fort Benton was part of the overland link between trade on the Missouri and the Columbia River, at Fort Walla Walla, Washington. Twenty thousand migrants used the road in the first year to travel to the Northwest. It became an important route for miners from both directions going into the interior of Idaho, and north to Canada. Steamboat travel to Fort Benton from St. Louis, Missouri helped broadly fuel the development of the American West between 1860 and 1890, when it was supplanted by railroad transport. The river was an important route for miners to the newly discovered gold fields of southern Montana at what became Bannack and Virginia City beginning in 1862, and Helena, beginning in 1865.

With the decline of the fur trade, the American Fur Company sold the fort to the US Army in 1865, which named it for Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. A town had grown up around it that surpassed the military presence. Besides being one of the most important ports on the Missouri-Mississippi river system, Fort Benton was once the "World's Innermost Port" - the furthest point of navigable water on the Missouri River. It was served by numerous well-known "mountain boats" (steamboats with shallow drafts and poles for "grasshoppering" off of sandbars, designed for the Missouri River), such as the Far West, and its famed captain, Grant Marsh.

Show Regional Data

Population (total): Population in 2017: 1,451 (0% urban, 100% rural). >Population change since 2000: -9.0%

Population (male): 684

Median Age: 58.7 years

Cost of Living: March 2019 cost of living index in Fort Benton: 87.1 (less than average, U.S. average is 100)

Poverty (breakdown):

Sex Offenders: According to our research of Montana and other state lists, there were 6 registered sex offenders living in Fort Benton, Montana as of January 15, 2021. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Fort Benton is 225 to 1.>

Ancestries: Ancestries: German (32.1%), Norwegian (16.2%), European (9.8%), English (9.5%), American (8.7%), Irish (5.3%).

Elevation: 2632 feet

Land Area: 2.09 square miles.

Median Incomes:
      Estimated median household income in 2017: $47,537 (it was $29,406 in 2000)
      Estimated per capita income in 2017: $25,499 (it was $14,861 in 2000)
      Estimated median house or condo value in 2017: $171,664 (it was $71,100 in 2000) Fort Benton:$171,664MT:$231,300

Races:
      White alone - 1,419 - 96.9%
      Two or more races - 25 - 1.7%
      Hispanic - 9 - 0.6%
      American Indian alone - 7 - 0.5%
      Asian alone - 3 - 0.2%
      Black alone - 1 - 0.07%

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