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Fort Shaw Montana Map

Explore Fort Shaw, 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.

Interactive Map of Fort Shaw, Montana

How to Use This Fort Shaw, Montana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Fort Shaw, 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 Fort Shaw.

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	Fort Shaw
State	Montana (MT)
County	Cascade County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	47.496885
Longitude	-111.819344
Population	256
Density	17.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	59443
Area Code	406
County Seat	Great Falls
School District	Sun River Valley Elementary School District

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Fort Shaw Fishing Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 1.1 mi, 008° N
Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 2.0 mi, 022° N
Crown Butte (Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 229° SW
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (State Park) — 8.6 mi, 072° E
Largent's Bend Fishing Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 8.6 mi, 072° E
First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park (State Park) — 12.1 mi, 091° E
First Peoples Buffalo Jump SP (Monument) — 13.8 mi, 095° E
Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.1 mi, 021° N · 25k acres
Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.4 mi, 336° NW
Earle E Heikka Museum (Museum) — 21.9 mi, 088° E
A. Hooker's Gallery (Gallery) — 23.0 mi, 088° E
Kid Russell and Monte Statue (Public Artwork) — 23.5 mi, 088° E
The History Museum (Museum) — 24.0 mi, 089° E
American Music (Theatre) — 24.0 mi, 089° E
QGallery Sixteen (Gallery) — 24.4 mi, 088° E
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art (Museum) — 25.1 mi, 088° E
Cascade County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 25.1 mi, 088° E
Steamboat Island Scenic Overlook (Viewpoint) — 27.0 mi, 085° E
Teton Antique Tractor & Steam Engines (Museum) — 27.3 mi, 323° NW
Lewis & Clark National Forest (National Forest) — 28.8 mi, 323° NW · 1.9M acres
Blackfeet and Buffalo Historical Marker (Monument) — 33.1 mi, 320° NW
Scapegoat Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 37.0 mi, 243° SW · 260k acres
Helena National Forest (National Forest) — 39.9 mi, 180° S · 984k acres
Mann Gulch Firefighter Memorial (Monument) — 42.3 mi, 185° S
Bob Marshall Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 42.9 mi, 289° W · 1.1M acres
High Water Mark (Attraction) — 58.0 mi, 067° NE
Rider Of The Purple Sage (Attraction) — 58.0 mi, 067° NE
John Mullan Trail Marker (Attraction) — 58.2 mi, 067° NE
Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea Memorial (Attraction) — 58.2 mi, 067° NE
Helena Avenue Theater (Theatre) — 62.7 mi, 189° S

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