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Big Stone Colony Montana Map

Explore Big Stone Colony, Montana, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Big Stone Colony, Montana

How to Use This Big Stone Colony, Montana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Big Stone Colony, Montana. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Montana or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Big Stone Colony.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Big Stone Colony
State	Montana (MT)
County	Cascade County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	47.399958
Longitude	-111.217468
Population	78
Density	32.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	59472
Area Code	406
County Seat	Great Falls
School District	Centerville Elementary School District

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About Big Stone Colony, Montana

Big Stone Colony is a locality in Cascade County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 78. The population density is 32.0 people per km². Big Stone Colony is located at 47.4000°N, 111.2175°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59472.

Big Stone Colony occupies a stretch of high, open prairie where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the earth. It lies 7.9 miles south-southeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 151°T), and is situated 7.5 miles south-southwest of Malmstrom AFB. The landscape unfolds in muted tones of sage and tawny grass, defined by the sharp, downward slope of Mining Coulee just two miles to the west. A quiet air hangs over the plains, punctuated only by the occasional rustle of dry stalks or the sudden, wide-winged ascent of a hawk circling above. While the jagged silhouette of the Rocky Mountains remains a distant, snowy promise over one hundred miles away, the immediate terrain feels vast and exposed, anchored by the meandering path of Cottonwood Creek three miles from the center.

Big Stone Colony remains a place defined by the steady, labor-intensive rhythms of agricultural life, where the local economy draws its strength from the cycles of the soil and the stewardship of the land. Neighbors maintain a quiet connection to the nearby Montana State Trust Lands, traversing the open acreage with a respect born of generations of shared work. The pace of daily existence here is measured not by clocks, but by the fading amber light of dusk that settles over the fields long before the shadows reach the distant banks of Black Horse Lake. Life persists in the gaps between the great stretches of grass, a testament to the endurance of those who choose to live where the wind carries the scent of dry earth and the coming winter.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 3.1 mi, 037° NE
White Bear Fishing Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 3.9 mi, 303° NW
Big Bend Fishing Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 5.5 mi, 261° W
Highland South Park (Local Recreation) — 6.6 mi, 331° NW
Sibel Soccer Fields (Local Recreation) — 7.5 mi, 359° N
Lewis and Clark Statue (Public Artwork) — 7.6 mi, 327° NW
Cascade County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 7.9 mi, 338° N
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art (Museum) — 7.9 mi, 337° NW
The History Museum (Museum) — 8.0 mi, 329° NW
QGallery Sixteen (Gallery) — 8.2 mi, 333° NW
American Music (Theatre) — 8.2 mi, 330° NW
Giant Springs State Park (State Park) — 8.5 mi, 349° N
Steamboat Island Scenic Overlook (Viewpoint) — 8.8 mi, 353° N
Lewis & Clark National Forest (National Forest) — 8.8 mi, 353° N · 1.9M acres
A. Hooker's Gallery (Gallery) — 9.0 mi, 326° NW
Earle E Heikka Museum (Museum) — 9.7 mi, 320° NW
First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park (State Park) — 14.7 mi, 288° W
Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.2 mi, 352° N · 25k acres
First Peoples Buffalo Jump SP (Monument) — 15.4 mi, 291° W
Helena National Forest (National Forest) — 34.0 mi, 185° S · 984k acres
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument (National Monument) — 37.7 mi, 042° NE · 507k acres
Kendra Jayne Romain (Monument) — 37.7 mi, 042° NE
Fort Benton City Hall (Monument) — 38.6 mi, 041° NE
High Water Mark (Attraction) — 38.6 mi, 041° NE
Rider Of The Purple Sage (Attraction) — 38.6 mi, 041° NE
John Mullan Trail Marker (Attraction) — 38.8 mi, 041° NE
Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea Memorial (Attraction) — 38.8 mi, 041° NE
Gates Of The Mountains Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 41.1 mi, 214° SW · 28k acres
Judith Basin County Museum (Museum) — 49.7 mi, 110° E
Stageline Pizza and Theater (Cinema) — 60.7 mi, 166° S

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