Sallet reports that by 1920, there were 4,500 Evangelical and 266 Catholic Volga German immigrants of the first and second generation settled in Montana. They had come there following the development of the Huntley Project, an irrigation project in southern Montana that was established by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in 1907. This irrigation brought water to vast areas of the Yellowstone Valley and spirited development of the sugar beet industry there.
Sallet reports that early Volga German settlers in Iliff came from the colony of Pfeifer. Many worked in the sugar beet factory in nearby Sterling.
Sallet reports that the settlement of Volga Germans in Pueblo began in the 1890s when Wiesenseite colonists who had first settled in Ellis County, Kansas, began moving there.
Many Volga Germans immigrated to Minnesota with the development of the sugar beet industry. Sallet reports that by 1920, there were 750 Evangelical Volga German immigrants of the first and second generation settled in Minnesota.
Volga Germans were attracted to Michigan in 1902 by the sugarbeet industry. Later many found jobs in Michigan industry.
A number of Volga German families from Yagodnaya-Polyana that had originally settled in Kansas relocated to Maryland in the mid-1890s, and their descants are located today throughout this region.
Sallet reports that by 1920, there were 500 Evangelical and 500 Catholic Volga German immigrants of the first and second generation living in Iowa.
Volga Germans began settling in Illinois in 1888 with the first immigrants from Grimm and Balzer arriving in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago.
Sallet reports that in 1910, Volga Germans from the Portland, Oregon, area moved to Idaho to work in the sugarbeet industry.
Sallet reports that by 1920, there were 16,000 Evangelical and 3,500 Catholic Volga German immigrants of the first and second generation settled in Colorado. In 1970, descendants of the Germans from Russia were the second largest ethnic group in Colorado, exceeded only by Spanish-speaking people.