Fair Haven Colony Montana Map

About Fair Haven Colony, Montana

Fair Haven Colony is a locality in Cascade County, Montana, United States. Fair Haven Colony is located at 47.4036°N, 111.6283°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59485.

Fair Haven Colony occupies a quiet expanse of high plains where the horizon stretches toward the jagged, snow-dusted silhouette of the Rocky Mountains ninety miles to the west. It lies 16.7 miles west-southwest of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 247°T), and is situated 22.0 miles west-southwest of Malmstrom AFB. Dry Fork carves a shallow, meandering path through the earth just a mile from the center, its seasonal pulse providing a meager but vital moisture to the grasses that turn a brittle, pale gold under the relentless summer sun. Beyond the immediate perimeter, the terrain opens into the sweeping, sun-bleached expanse of the Ulm Flats, where the light at dusk flattens the landscape into long, indigo shadows that seem to swallow the distance. The air here holds a sharp, clean clarity that makes the distant peaks appear deceptively close, a reminder of the immense, unpeopled spaces that define the character of the region.

Montana State Trust Lands surround the settlement, serving as a reminder of the agrarian legacies that first drew people to this austere, wind-raked geography. Fair Haven Colony persists as a place of deliberate, slow-moving industry, where the economy remains tethered to the rhythms of ranching and the maintenance of the dry-land wheat fields that ripple toward the horizon. Life here is measured by the seasonal shift in wind and the infrequent, heavy silence that settles over the plains when the chores are done and the machinery falls still. Residents occasionally look toward the distant, thundering spray of Castner Falls or the stillness of Rocky Reef Reservoir for a change in scenery, but the daily existence of the people is firmly rooted in the resilient, stubborn earth of these high plains.

About This Fair Haven Colony Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fair Haven Colony, Montana. Coordinates: 47.403564, -111.628311. 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 Fair Haven Colony includes the ZIP code (59485), telephone area code (406), county seat of Cascade County (Great Falls), and school district assignment (Cascade High 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.