Fort Shaw Montana Map

About Fort Shaw, Montana

Fort Shaw is a locality in Cascade County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 256. The population density is 17.4 people per km². Fort Shaw is located at 47.4969°N, 111.8193°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59443.

Fort Shaw claims its place upon the high, sun-bleached plains where the horizon stretches into an immense and pale clarity. It lies 23.8 miles west of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 271°T), and is situated 29.3 miles west of Malmstrom AFB. Adobe Creek cuts a shallow, persistent groove through the earth near Fort Shaw, its waters moving with a quiet, muddy resolve that defies the dry, expansive sky. To the west, the jagged, distant silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains anchor the world, standing as a cold, serrated edge against the gathering dusk. The air here carries a thin, crisp edge even in the heat of midday, smelling of dry sage and the parched, cracked soil that defines the local topography. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the land lifts toward the rugged, shadowed folds of Kolsta Coulee, where the grass turns to a brittle gold under the relentless Montana sun.

History clings to the dust of Fort Shaw, a remnant of a time when the military sought to impose order upon the vast, open frontier. The local economy persists in the quiet labor of agriculture, where irrigation lines trace geometric patterns across fields that once saw the movement of troops and the shifting tides of the nineteenth century. Visitors occasionally pause at the Fort Shaw Fishing Access Site, finding a moment of stillness where the land meets the water, far removed from the noise of more crowded corners of the country. Life in Fort Shaw maintains a deliberate, measured pace, revolving around the seasonal rhythms of the harvest and the long, deep freeze of winter. While the distant Rocky Mountains remain an immutable presence, the pulse of the place is found in the everyday, persistent work of those who cultivate this demanding, beautiful expanse of plains.

About This Fort Shaw Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fort Shaw, Montana. Coordinates: 47.496885, -111.819344. 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 Shaw includes the ZIP code (59443), telephone area code (406), county seat of Cascade County (Great Falls), and school district assignment (Sun River Valley 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.