Coram Montana Map

About Coram, Montana

Coram is a locality in Flathead County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 572. The population density is 59.5 people per km². Coram is located at 48.4306°N, 114.0468°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59913.

Coram occupies a quiet stretch of land where the Flathead River carves a path through the dense, evergreen expanse of the Flathead National Forest. It lies 19.6 miles northeast of Kalispell, MT (from Kalispell, MT: bearing 38°T), and is situated 7.0 miles east-northeast of Columbia Falls. The air here holds a distinct, sharp clarity, smelling of damp pine needles and the cold, mineral breath of the water as it pulls toward the nearby Badrock Canyon. In the distance, the jagged silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains anchor the horizon, standing as a permanent, immovable backdrop to the shifting light of the afternoon. While Lake West sits only a short distance away, the landscape is defined primarily by the pervasive presence of the timbered wilderness, which presses in on the edges of the road and gives the land a sense of being reclaimed by the forest itself.

Coram retains the character of a place forged by the rhythm of the timber industry and the steady, seasonal migration of travelers moving toward the high country. Residents here live in the shadow of the landscape’s vastness, where the local economy has long shifted toward supporting those who come to hike the Columbia Mountain Trail or seek the rugged solitude found further inland. Life moves in accordance with the transition of the seasons, from the deep silence of winter when the slopes of Stanton Glacier seem to grow closer in the thin, frozen air, to the fleeting, vibrant heat of summer. It is a place of functional, unpretentious structures, where the daily pace is dictated not by clocks, but by the insistent, rushing current of the river and the long, slow shadows that stretch across the valley floor as evening arrives.

About This Coram Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Coram, Montana. Coordinates: 48.43062, -114.046814. 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 Coram includes the ZIP code (59913), telephone area code (406), county seat of Flathead County (Kalispell), and school district assignment (Columbia Falls 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.