Custer, Montana Custer, Montana Custer is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yellowstone County, Montana, United States. The population was 145 at the 2000 census. This community bears the name of U.S. Army General George Armstrong Custer who was defeated and killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn, which took place nearby in 1876. Custer is located at (46.128870, -107.556302). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Custer has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. As of the census of 2000,
Battle of the Little Bighorn on the Plains", published just two years before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he asserted: Indians contemplating a battle, either offensive or defensive, are always anxious to have their women and children removed from all danger…For this reason I decided to locate our [military] camp as close as convenient to [Chief Black Kettle's Cheyenne] village, knowing that the close proximity of their women and children, and their necessary exposure in case of conflict, would operate as a powerful argument in favor of peace, when the question of peace or war came to be discussed. On Custer's decision to advance