Big Stone Colony Montana Map

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.

About This Big Stone Colony Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Big Stone Colony, Montana. Coordinates: 47.399958, -111.217468. 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 Big Stone Colony includes the ZIP code (59472), telephone area code (406), county seat of Cascade County (Great Falls), and school district assignment (Centerville Elementary School District).

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.