Fairfield Montana Map

About Fairfield, Montana

Fairfield is a locality in Teton County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 759. The population density is 933.3 people per km². Fairfield is located at 47.6147°N, 111.9803°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Fairfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 59436.

Fairfield anchors a vast expanse of high plains where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 32.7 miles west-northwest of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 284°T), and is situated 37.9 miles west-northwest of Malmstrom AFB. The horizon stretches thin and pale, meeting the distant, jagged silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains that shimmer in the hazy light ninety miles to the west. Closer to the ground, the landscape is defined by the steady, unyielding flat of the prairie, punctuated by the subtle depression of Floweree Coulee. Water serves as the lifeblood of this arid stage, channeled through the Greenfields Main Canal to sustain the stubborn green of the crops. Only two miles away, the landscape shifts toward the marshy, seasonal margins of Freezeout Lake, where the air grows heavy with the sudden, rhythmic beat of migratory wings.

Fairfield grew from the necessity of harnessing the land, establishing a rhythm of life dictated by the seasonal cycle of wheat and barley harvests. Agriculture remains the quiet engine of the local economy, a pursuit that demands a stoic patience and a deep familiarity with the shifting moods of the climate. The Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area serves as a stark reminder of the wilder, uncultivated forces that persist just beyond the fence lines of the working farms. Life in Fairfield moves with the deliberate pace of a long-settled rural outpost, where the social geography is marked by the distance between neighbors and the shared endurance of the long, cold winters. Even as technology alters the methods of the plow, the character of the place remains fixed in the soil, defined by the immense, open silence that settles over the fields when the day’s work is done.

About This Fairfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fairfield, Montana. Coordinates: 47.614673, -111.980278. 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 Fairfield includes the ZIP code (59436), telephone area code (406), county seat of Teton County (Choteau), and school district assignment (Fairfield 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.