Fort Benton Montana Map

About Fort Benton, Montana

Fort Benton is a locality in Chouteau County, Montana, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,449. The population density is 244.0 people per km². Fort Benton is located at 47.8290°N, 110.6558°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Fort Benton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 59442.

Fort Benton anchors itself to the high plains of the American West, where the Missouri River carves a deliberate path through the earth. It lies 36.8 miles northeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 53°T), and is situated 32.3 miles northeast of Malmstrom AFB. The landscape around Fort Benton is defined by the sharp transition between the open, wind-swept prairie and the rugged, vertical drop of The Canyon, which frames the river’s slow, persistent movement. Sunlight here feels heavy and unfiltered, casting long, ochre shadows across the sagebrush and limestone as the day wanes. While the distant, jagged peaks of the Rocky Mountains remain a faint, ethereal blue on the western horizon, the immediate terrain is one of dry, resilient grasses and the quiet, persistent erosion of the riverbanks within the Upper Missouri National Wild & Scenic River.

History clings to the levees of Fort Benton, where the echoes of the fur trade and the steam-powered era remain etched into the weathered brick of the old levee district. As the primary head of navigation for the Missouri River in its prime, Fort Benton once served as the gateway for goods moving toward the northern frontier, shifting the local economy from a hub of river commerce to the steady, seasonal cycles of dryland agriculture and ranching. Life follows the pace of the harvest and the changing intensity of the light, far removed from the frantic pulse of larger centers. Though Eightmile Springs provides a quiet, singular point of moisture in the arid expanse, the character of the place is forged by the immense, quiet distances between neighbors and the enduring memory of those who first mapped the bend in the water.

About This Fort Benton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fort Benton, Montana. Coordinates: 47.829003, -110.655787. 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 Fort Benton includes the ZIP code (59442), telephone area code (406), county seat of Chouteau County (Fort Benton), and school district assignment (Fort Benton 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.