Enter your search query in the box below.

East Malta Colony Montana Map

Explore East Malta Colony, 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.

Interactive Map of East Malta Colony, Montana

How to Use This East Malta Colony, Montana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for East Malta Colony, 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 East Malta Colony.

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	East Malta Colony
State	Montana (MT)
County	Phillips County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	48.3487
Longitude	-107.606772
Population	97
Density	154.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	59538
Area Code	406
County Seat	Malta
School District	Malta K-12 Schools

🌦 Goto East Malta Colony Weather Page: East Malta Colony, Montana — Weather Warnings, Forecast, Radar, Satellite & Current Conditions

About East Malta Colony, Montana

East Malta Colony is a locality in Phillips County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 97. The population density is 154.8 people per km². East Malta Colony is located at 48.3487°N, 107.6068°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59538.

East Malta Colony sprawls across the high, arid plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut, a vast expanse of earth defined by the persistent, unblinking clarity of the Montana sun. It lies 180.8 miles east-northeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 70°T), and is situated 12.3 miles east of Malta.

The terrain around East Malta Colony is defined by the subtle, rhythmic shifts of the prairie, where the drainage of Beaver Creek carves a shallow path through the soil, offering a slender green ribbon to a landscape otherwise dominated by sagebrush and dry grass. A mile away, the quiet surface of LeNoir Reservoir holds the sky in a stillness that mirrors the intensity of the overhead vault, while the rugged terrain of Clanton Coulee creates deep shadows that shift with the passing of the day. Beyond the immediate reach of the nearby Montana State Trust Lands, the land remains open and indifferent, its scale so immense that even the distant, hazy ghost of the Rocky Mountains seems a mere suggestion on the western edge of the world.

History here is written in the hard, utilitarian lines of fences and the seasonal migration of livestock, reflecting an economy anchored to the pulse of the soil and the cycles of the Great Plains. Families have long labored to coax a living from this stubborn ground, maintaining a steady, quiet persistence that ignores the frantic pace of the wider world. Life in East Malta Colony moves with the measured gravity of a place where weather dictates the schedule and the wind is a constant, vocal neighbor. The local economy relies on the endurance of the ranching tradition, a pursuit that demands a deep, unspoken familiarity with the land’s capacity for both drought and sudden, short-lived abundance. In the evening, the air cools rapidly, and the silence that descends upon the plains carries a weight that feels as old as the earth itself, grounding the people who choose to build their lives in the shadow of such wide-open space.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 0.9 mi, 090° E
Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 2.8 mi, 359° N · 31k acres
Bowdoin Wildlife Habitat Protection Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.0 mi, 359° N
Phillips County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 4.0 mi, 031° NE
Nelson Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 8.5 mi, 359° N
Big Bend Of The Milk River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 10.3 mi, 328° NW
Sleeping Buffalo Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.1 mi, 027° NE
Hewitt Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.2 mi, 000° N · 1,440 acres
Cole Ponds Fishing Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 14.5 mi, 024° NE
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (State Park) — 15.5 mi, 269° W
Early Day Outlaws (Monument) — 16.5 mi, 275° W
Malta Geologic Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 18.6 mi, 329° NW
Ul Bend National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 48.7 mi, 190° S · 19k acres
Pictorial Museum (Museum) — 53.9 mi, 280° W
Old Fort Peck Historical Marker (Monument) — 57.2 mi, 114° SE
Leo B Coleman Wildlife Pasture (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 57.7 mi, 113° SE
Powerhouse Museum (Museum) — 59.7 mi, 112° E
Slippery Ann Elk Viewing area (Viewpoint) — 66.5 mi, 221° SW
Gilmore Cabin River Stop (Attraction) — 75.0 mi, 240° SW
The Battle of Bear Paws (Monument) — 76.7 mi, 283° W

Latest News: East Malta Colony

Loading news…

World News

Loading news-world…

More World News