Explore Bridger, 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 Bridger, 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 Bridger.
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 | Bridger |
| State | Montana (MT) |
| County | Carbon County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 45.804244 |
| Longitude | -110.896384 |
| Population | 72 |
| Density | 7.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 59014 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| County Seat | Red Lodge |
| School District | Bozeman High School District |
Bridger anchors the expansive high plains of Montana, where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the sun each evening in a deep, bruised violet. It lies 39.2 miles south-southwest of Billings, MT (from Billings, MT: bearing 211°T), and is situated 17.9 miles east-northeast of Red Lodge. The land surrounding Bridger consists of arid benches and irrigated fields, a stark geography defined by the persistent, rhythmic flow of the Clarks Fork Yellowstone River which courses through the valley floor. Far to the west, the jagged, snow-dusted silhouette of the Beartooth Mountains rises against the sky, serving as a permanent, silent sentry over the valley. Visitors often pause at the Bridger Fishing Access Site to watch the water churn against the river stones, while the distant, rugged terrain of Bachelder Canyon marks the uneven transition toward higher, more broken country.
Bridger emerged from the necessity of agrarian life, built upon the hard-won success of sugar beet farming and the resilience of those who cultivate the heavy, alkaline soil. The economy remains tethered to the pulse of the seasons, where the labor of the harvest dictates the pace of the calendar and the quietude of the streets. Beyond the fields, the landscape offers subtle retreats like Shupak Ponds, where the water holds the reflection of the clouds in a stillness that feels ancient. Life in Bridger moves with a deliberate, unadorned gravity, colored by the practical wisdom of families who have worked these plains for generations, their histories written in the fence lines that partition the sagebrush and the orderly rows of crops.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bridger, Montana. Coordinates: 45.804244, -110.896384. 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 Bridger includes the ZIP code (59014), telephone area code (406), county seat of Carbon County (Red Lodge), and school district assignment (Bozeman High 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. |