Box Elder Montana Map

About Box Elder, Montana

Box Elder is a locality in Hill County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 85. The population density is 41.8 people per km². Box Elder is located at 48.3172°N, 110.0133°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59521.

Box Elder occupies a stretch of high, open prairie where the horizon seems to pull the sky down until it brushes the dry grass. It lies 82.1 miles northeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 46°T), and is situated 22.1 miles southwest of Havre. Boxelder Creek carves a shallow, wandering path through the earth here, its banks providing a thin ribbon of color against the vast, pale expanse of the plains. Beyond the immediate terrain, the distant, serrated edge of the Rocky Mountains haunts the western skyline, visible only when the atmosphere clarifies after a storm. To the north, the terrain folds into the quiet depressions of Barneys Coulee, while the nearby Montana State Trust Lands offer a sprawling, silent expanse of sage and wind-swept soil that defines the regional character. The light at dusk is particularly heavy, turning the dust of the plains into a fine, suspended gold that lingers long after the sun has dipped below the rim of the world.

History in Box Elder remains tied to the slow, deliberate work of the land and the resilient cycles of ranching that have sustained families for generations. The economy persists through the quiet industry of agriculture, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life more effectively than any clock. Water is a precious, measured resource, with Grass Reservoir serving as a focal point for the surrounding acreage and the persistent, quiet needs of the local livestock. There is a profound stillness in the way the local architecture keeps its head down against the wind, a functional modesty that reflects a culture of endurance. Life here is measured by the immense distances between neighbors and the shared, unspoken understanding that the environment demands a specific, rugged kind of attention to survive and thrive.

About This Box Elder Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Box Elder, Montana. Coordinates: 48.317208, -110.013263. 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 Box Elder includes the ZIP code (59521), telephone area code (406), county seat of Hill County (Havre), and school district assignment (Box Elder 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.