Explore Black Eagle, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Black Eagle, 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 Black Eagle.
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 | Black Eagle |
| State | Montana (MT) |
| County | Cascade County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 47.527748 |
| Longitude | -111.259956 |
| Population | 949 |
| Density | 237.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 59414 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| County Seat | Great Falls |
| School District | Great Falls Elementary School District |
Black Eagle persists as a sturdy threshold where the relentless Missouri River carves a path through the high, open plains. It lies 2.0 miles north-northeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 32°T), and is situated 4.7 miles west-northwest of Malmstrom AFB. The landscape here is defined by an expansive, wind-swept austerity, where the light at dusk flattens the prairie into long, copper shadows that stretch toward the distant silhouette of the Rocky Mountains. Within the immediate basin, the land yields to the churning power of Black Eagle Falls, a relentless force that has long dictated the rhythm of the surrounding terrain. Residents find a quiet, persistent beauty in the way the air thins and sharpens near the water, and the nearby reaches of Watson Coulee offer a jagged, earthen contrast to the flatter stretches of the river corridor.
Black Eagle maintains a character forged in the furnace of industrial ambition, rising from the necessity of harnessing the river’s strength for the copper and smelting works that once defined its economy. While the heavy machinery has largely fallen silent, the physical remnants of these operations remain part of the local fiber, standing as monuments to a time when the region served as a vital engine for the state. Visitors and locals alike find space for reflection in Black Eagle Park, a green sanctuary that preserves a sliver of the wild prairie amidst the human-made structures. The pace of life here is deliberate and observant, shaped by the immense, cloud-dappled sky and the quiet reach toward the more distant, shimmering expanse of Black Horse Lake.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Black Eagle, Montana. Coordinates: 47.527748, -111.259956. 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 Black Eagle includes the ZIP code (59414), telephone area code (406), county seat of Cascade County (Great Falls), and school district assignment (Great Falls Elementary School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |