Ballantine Montana Map

About Ballantine, Montana

Ballantine is a locality in Yellowstone County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 293. The population density is 124.3 people per km². Ballantine is located at 45.9489°N, 108.1451°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59006.

Ballantine sits where the expansive horizon of the high plains meets the persistent, quiet labor of the Huntley Main Canal. It lies 20.6 miles northeast of Billings, MT (from Billings, MT: bearing 56°T), and is situated 15.8 miles northeast of Lockwood. The landscape around Ballantine unfolds in a series of arid, sun-bleached terraces that catch the amber light of dusk, turning the dry grasses into a shimmering, brittle gold. To the west, the distant, jagged silhouette of the Rocky Mountains marks the edge of the world, while the immediate terrain is defined by the sharp, earthy folds of Gravel Pit Coulee. A few miles away, the quiet stillness of Anita Reservoir provides a rare, glassy stillness in the basin, contrasting with the relentless, purposeful motion of the water diverted through the valley to sustain the thirsty earth.

History in Ballantine remains tied to the irrigation that transformed these plains into a patchwork of productive fields, anchoring the local economy firmly to agriculture and the seasonal cycles of harvest. Beyond the cultivated rows, the nearby Montana State Trust Lands offer a rugged expanse of sagebrush and exposed soil, preserving a stark, unadorned beauty that has persisted through generations of homesteading and change. Life here moves in sync with the irrigation gates and the cooling air of the high desert, where the wind carries the faint, metallic scent of damp silt and dry stalks. It is a place of immense, open space where the silence is rarely broken, save for the low hum of machinery or the sudden, sharp call of a hawk circling above the canal banks.

About This Ballantine Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ballantine, Montana. Coordinates: 45.948851, -108.14512. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Ballantine includes the ZIP code (59006), telephone area code (406), county seat of Yellowstone County (Billings), and school district assignment (Huntley Project K-12 Schools).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.