Explore Hungry Horse, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hungry Horse, 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 Hungry Horse.
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 | Hungry Horse |
| State | Montana (MT) |
| County | Flathead County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 48.385798 |
| Longitude | -114.060953 |
| Population | 828 |
| Density | 222.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 59919 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| County Seat | Kalispell |
| School District | Columbia Falls Elementary School District |
Hungry Horse occupies a rugged corridor where the cold, rushing waters of the Flathead River carve a path through the dense, coniferous timber of the Montana landscape. It lies 17.5 miles northeast of Kalispell, MT (from Kalispell, MT: bearing 41°T), and is situated 5.6 miles east of Columbia Falls. Sunlight here filters through the canopy in sharp, slanted needles, illuminating the deep greens of the forest and the gray, stony veins of the earth that define this high-country terrain. To the east, the distant, snow-dusted peaks of the Rocky Mountains anchor the horizon, standing as silent sentinels over the wild, untamed expanse. Hikers seeking the high ridges often congregate near the Columbia Mountain Trail, where the air grows thin and crisp, carrying the scent of damp pine and the lingering chill of the high elevations. Even in the height of summer, the shadow of Stanton Glacier looms in the collective consciousness of those who traverse these woods, a reminder of the frozen history that continues to shape the character of the soil and stream.
Hungry Horse emerged from the industrial necessity of mid-century engineering, born of the massive dam project that brought a permanent alteration to the local geography. The economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the land and the management of the surrounding wilderness, with the nearby Hungry Horse Reservoir serving as a vast, quiet basin that holds the meltwater of the seasons. Residents maintain a life defined by the seasonal cycles of the Flathead, Montana Wild and Scenic River, a waterway that demands respect and dictates the pace of local activity. Travelers passing toward the entrance of Badrock Canyon often stop here, finding a place where the clamor of the modern world fades against the immense, quiet scale of the timberlands. The spirit of Hungry Horse persists in this deliberate isolation, a steady pulse of human endurance set against the backdrop of a landscape that neither asks for nor offers any easy surrender.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hungry Horse, Montana. Coordinates: 48.385798, -114.060953. 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 Hungry Horse includes the ZIP code (59919), telephone area code (406), county seat of Flathead County (Kalispell), and school district assignment (Columbia Falls Elementary School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |