Oilmont is on the lower end of the Sunburst Oil Field. The name is a composite of that always exciting commodity, oil, and the name of the state.

Oilmont is located just a few miles from the Hi-Line towns of Shelby and Cut Bank. Hi-Line is a much-used Montana term which indicates both the route laid out by the Great Northern Railroad and US Highway 2 where it traverses the windswept, glaciated plains and shallow valleys of northern Montana. Much of the Hi-Line follows the Missouri and Milk rivers, extending routely from Poplar past Fort Peck Reservoir, to Glasgow and Malta, Chinook and Havre, and on to Shelby, Cut Bank, and Browning, ending up in Glacier National Park. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)