Petroleum County is one of the smallest counties in the United States by population. Census estimates place its residents in the low hundreds, almost all of them living in or near Winnett, the county seat. There is no daily newspaper, no commercial radio station, and no television outlet headquartered inside the county. ETTG has not indexed any active local news source publishing primarily for Petroleum County. Coverage of county-level government — the three-member commission, the school district, the sheriff's office — currently reaches residents through regional outlets based in Lewistown, roughly an hour west by road, and through statewide outlets based in Helena and Billings. This is the textbook profile of a rural news desert: a community small enough that no commercial publisher can sustain a beat reporter, and remote enough that adjacent metro newsrooms rarely send one. If you are aware of a community newsletter, a school-district bulletin, or a volunteer-run page that consistently covers Petroleum County government or schools, please suggest it — community submissions are how this gap closes.