Gildford Montana Map

About Gildford, Montana

Gildford is a locality in Hill County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 141. The population density is 47.9 people per km². Gildford is located at 48.5694°N, 110.2997°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59525.

Gildford occupies a stretch of the high plains where the horizon exerts a gravitational pull on the eyes, demanding a constant acknowledgment of the immense, open sky. It lies 87.2 miles north-northeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 32°T), and is situated 28.2 miles west of Havre. Sage Creek carves a shallow, persistent path through the earth nearby, its presence marked by the deepening of green grasses against the paler, sun-bleached expanse of the surrounding prairie. To the west, the distant jagged silhouette of the Rocky Mountains haunts the skyline, a reminder of a geological scale far removed from the immediate, quiet topography of the plains. England Coulee defines the local relief three miles away, creating subtle folds in the land that catch the long, slanting shadows of late afternoon. At the fringes of the settlement, the Montana State Trust Lands offer a quiet expanse of protected terrain, while the water of Dry Lake lies nine miles to the south, a rare, still mirror in a landscape defined by wind and grain.

Gildford emerged from the expansion of the northern railways, a product of the early twentieth-century promise that drew settlers to the hard, productive soil of the Hi-Line. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest and the endurance of dryland farming, where the success of the year is written in the density of wheat stalks and the timing of the spring rains. Life moves with a deliberate, sparse efficiency, dictated by the vast distances between neighbors and the seasonal cycles of the agricultural calendar. Small grain elevators stand as the primary architecture of the skyline, vertical sentinels that have observed the slow shift of decades and the persistent, quiet labor of the people who remain. There is a singular clarity here, a lack of pretense that comes from living in a place where the weather and the soil provide the only true measure of one's days.

About This Gildford Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gildford, Montana. Coordinates: 48.569437, -110.29966. 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 Gildford includes the ZIP code (59525), telephone area code (406), county seat of Hill County (Havre), and school district assignment (North Star 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.