Explore Lonepine, 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 Lonepine, 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 Lonepine.
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 | Lonepine |
| State | Montana (MT) |
| County | Sanders County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 47.692119 |
| Longitude | -114.639625 |
| Population | 177 |
| Density | 5.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 59845, 59848 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| County Seat | Thompson Falls |
| School District | Hot Springs K-12 |
Lonepine sits upon a high, austere stretch of earth where the horizon stretches thin and taut, defined by the quiet severity of the Montana plains. It lies 37.2 miles south-southwest of Kalispell, MT (from Kalispell, MT: bearing 204°T), and is situated 22.0 miles west of Polson. The terrain here is shaped by the subtle shifts of the land, moving toward the deep, shadowed recesses of Letzen Gulch and the slow, deliberate course of the Little Bitterroot River that marks the edge of the valley floor. In the distance, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Rocky Mountains haunts the western sky, a reminder of the immense weight of the earth beyond these open reaches. The light at dusk settles over the fields in long, bruised purples and golds, illuminating the dry grasses that ripple under the constant, restless wind. Only a mile away, the surface of Dry Fork Reservoir captures the changing sky, its glassy stillness offering a sharp, cold contrast to the arid dust of the surrounding plains.
Lonepine exists as a quiet testament to the enduring labor of those who work the soil and manage the vast, open expanses of the Montana State Trust Lands. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, where the cycles of agriculture and the harvesting of timber from the distant Thompson River State Forest dictate the pace of life. History here is written in the fence lines and the weathered wood of granaries that have stood against the harsh winters for generations, long after the initial settlement of the region. There is a singular, spare beauty in the way the residents navigate the immense distances between neighbors, finding a communal existence in the solitude of the high country. Life in Lonepine is defined by the resilience required to thrive in a landscape that demands much and promises little, where the sound of the wind through the pines is often the only voice that breaks the silence of the afternoon.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lonepine, Montana. Coordinates: 47.692119, -114.639625. 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 Lonepine includes the ZIP code (59845, 59848), telephone area code (406), county seat of Sanders County (Thompson Falls), and school district assignment (Hot Springs K-12).
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. |