Explore Fairfield, 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 Fairfield, 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 Fairfield.
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 | Fairfield |
| State | Montana (MT) |
| County | Teton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 47.614673 |
| Longitude | -111.980278 |
| Population | 759 |
| Density | 933.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 59436 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| County Seat | Choteau |
| School District | Fairfield Elementary School District |
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.
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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).
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. |