Explore Brooks, 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 Brooks, 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 Brooks.
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 | Brooks |
| State | Montana (MT) |
| County | Fergus County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 47.204143 |
| Longitude | -109.421294 |
| Population | 18 |
| Density | 79.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 59457 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| County Seat | Lewistown |
| School District | Fergus High School District |
Brooks sits upon a vast, high-plains expanse where the horizon stretches into a pale, endless blue that swallows the sun each evening in a slow burn of amber and violet. It lies 90.3 miles east-southeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 102°T), and is situated 9.8 miles north of Lewistown. The landscape around Brooks is defined by its austere, open geography, characterized by flat, wind-swept tracts and low, grassy rises that offer little resistance to the persistent breeze. A short distance away, the cool, clear flow of Warm Spring Creek cuts a quiet path through the terrain, while the nearby Montana State Trust Lands provide a sprawling, untamed buffer of sagebrush and prairie grass. Though the jagged heights of the Rocky Mountains loom far to the west, they remain distant specters, silhouettes of shadow that rarely intrude upon the immediate, quiet intensity of the local sky.
Economic life in Brooks remains tethered to the rhythm of the soil and the endurance of those who work it, reflecting a legacy built upon the quiet resilience of ranching and dryland agriculture. The presence of Upper Carters Pond serves as a modest, essential anchor in the surrounding basin, a place where the stillness of the water mirrors the unhurried nature of daily existence. Residents often look toward the nearby expanse of The Park, a subtle depression in the topography that has long dictated the flow of local movement and seasonal grazing patterns. Life in Brooks moves with a deliberate, sparse grace, unburdened by the clamor of larger centers, sustained instead by the deep, resonant silence that settles over the plains once the light begins to fail.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Brooks, Montana. Coordinates: 47.204143, -109.421294. 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 Brooks includes the ZIP code (59457), telephone area code (406), county seat of Fergus County (Lewistown), and school district assignment (Fergus 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. |