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Homestead Montana Map

Explore Homestead, 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 Homestead, Montana

How to Use This Homestead, Montana Map

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

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	Homestead
State	Montana (MT)
County	Sheridan County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	48.421135
Longitude	-104.538845
Population	35
Density	31.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	59242
Area Code	406
County Seat	Plentywood
School District	Medicine Lake K-12 Schools

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About Homestead, Montana

Homestead is a locality in Sheridan County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 35. The population density is 31.1 people per km². Homestead is located at 48.4211°N, 104.5388°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59242.

Homestead sits amid an expansive, golden-hued prairie where the sky claims the vast majority of the horizon. It lies 46.4 miles west-northwest of Williston, ND (from Williston, ND: bearing 294°T), and is situated 51.8 miles north-northwest of Sidney. The landscape surrounding Homestead remains defined by the quiet persistence of the plains, broken only by the subtle depression of Sauerkraut Coulee three miles to the west and the distant, haunting profile of Umbrights Hill rising nine miles away. Water shapes the rhythm of this terrain, with Big Muddy Creek flowing just a mile from the center, its channel cutting a muted path through the earth, while the still, reflective surface of Homestead Lake offers a calm counterpoint to the relentless sweep of the wind. Within this expanse, the Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge occupies the immediate landscape, providing a sanctuary where the silence is punctuated only by the seasonal migration of birds and the rustle of dry grasses.

Homestead traces its origins to the era of homesteading, when settlers arrived to break the sod and establish a life tied to the unpredictable cycles of the high plains. The local economy persists as a quiet extension of this agricultural foundation, dominated by the cultivation of grain and the steady, solitary work of ranching that defines the daily lives of those who remain. Life in Homestead moves with a deliberate, measured pace, influenced by the immense distances between neighbors and the stark, uncompromising beauty of the seasons. There is a particular clarity to the light here, a sharp, crystalline quality that reveals the texture of the soil and the endurance of the wooden structures that stand against the weather, serving as quiet evidence of a resilience born from the land itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.4 mi, 240° SW · 63k acres
Sheridan County Waterfowl Production Area Of Mt (Resource Management Area) — 1.1 mi, 271° W
Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 1.8 mi, 131° SE
Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 4.3 mi, 027° NE · 12k acres
Roosevelt County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 5.8 mi, 191° S
Culbertson Museum (Museum) — 18.9 mi, 174° S
Brush Lake State Park (State Park) — 22.4 mi, 058° NE
Sheridan County Agriculture Museum and Civic Center (Museum) — 24.1 mi, 360° N
Poplar Museum (Museum) — 36.0 mi, 234° SW
Fort Peck Tribal Museum (Museum) — 36.1 mi, 236° SW
Lake Zahl National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 39.8 mi, 078° E · 6,424 acres
Trenton (State Conservation Area) — 40.2 mi, 128° SE
Sakakawea Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 40.2 mi, 128° SE
Sloulin Field International Airport (historic) (Historic Ruins) — 44.6 mi, 112° E
Gn 3059 (Attraction) — 46.4 mi, 114° SE
Little Missouri National Grassland (National Grassland) — 47.2 mi, 145° SE · 1.0M acres
Daniels County Museum (Museum) — 48.1 mi, 302° NW
Centre Theatre (Cinema) — 51.9 mi, 160° S
Monument 538B (Attraction) — 56.3 mi, 316° NW
Six Shooters Showall (Cinema) — 72.0 mi, 126° SE
Theodore Roosevelt National Park (National Park) — 75.3 mi, 138° SE · 70k acres
Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 75.3 mi, 138° SE · 30k acres
Oxbow Overlook (Viewpoint) — 76.0 mi, 138° SE

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