Lincoln Montana Map

About Lincoln, Montana

Lincoln is a locality in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 998. The population density is 22.0 people per km². Lincoln is located at 46.9549°N, 112.6817°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59639.

Lincoln emerges from the high-altitude silence as a singular threshold where the dark, timbered shadows of the Lincoln State Forest press against the edges of human habitation. It lies 39.5 miles northwest of Helena, MT (from Helena, MT: bearing 310°T), and is situated 33.1 miles west-northwest of Helena Valley Northwest. Spring Creek cuts a persistent, cold path through the valley floor, its movement providing a constant, rhythmic pulse that defines the local topography before the land rises toward the distant, jagged silhouette of the Rocky Mountains. Two miles from the quiet stillness of Smith Lake, the air carries a sharp, resinous clarity that speaks of deep winters and the long, pale light of northern afternoons. Beyond the immediate clearings, the terrain yields to the rugged, untamed character of the Montana State Trust Lands, where the earth holds its own counsel beneath a vast, unyielding sky.

Lincoln remains defined by the deliberate, slow-turning gears of a landscape that has long demanded resilience from those who occupy it. The local economy persists in the quiet commerce of timber and the seasonal migration of those who seek the solitude of Bear Gulch or the arduous, rising switchbacks of the Liverpool Snowbank Trail. History here is marked not by grand monuments, but by the steady endurance of a populace that has adapted to the isolation of the high country, where the distance between neighbors is measured in miles of pine and granite. Life in Lincoln moves with the gravity of the seasons, maintaining a character forged by the proximity of wild, mountainous expanses and the singular, quiet dignity of a place that asks for little and offers a profound, solitary peace in return.

About This Lincoln Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lincoln, Montana. Coordinates: 46.95494, -112.681707. 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 Lincoln includes the ZIP code (59639), telephone area code (406), county seat of Lewis and Clark County (Helena), and school district assignment (Lincoln K-12 Schools).

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.