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From Names on the Face of Montana by Roberta Carkeek Cheney:
Windham (Judith Basin) was named for the Vermont home (Windham County) of Leslie Hamilton, who owned the Sage Creek Ranch near Windham. The first choice for a name was Hamilton, after L. H. Hamilton, who came to the Sage Creek Valley in 1880 and began a large sheep and farming operation. But there was all ready a town by that name. The post office was established in 1907 with Leona Miner in charge. In 1910 William Peters was appointed postmaster. The office was made a rural station out of Stanford in 1966. When the railroad came through in 1907, Hamilton and others laid out the town. “Duncan Gillespie and his drug store spanned the periods of growth and decline in Windham. The homesteaders, the railroaders, and coal miners from nearby Lehigh boomed the town for awhile. Mike and Fred Reed promoted rodeos. Now the town is about gone, but productive grain and cattle ranches surround it” (Byerly).
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