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Loring Colony Montana Map

Explore Loring Colony, 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 Loring Colony, Montana

How to Use This Loring Colony, Montana Map

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

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	Loring Colony
State	Montana (MT)
County	Phillips County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	48.786674
Longitude	-107.973444
Population	48
Density	50.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	59537
Area Code	406
County Seat	Malta
School District	Malta K-12 Schools

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About Loring Colony, Montana

Loring Colony is a locality in Phillips County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 48. The population density is 50.0 people per km². Loring Colony is located at 48.7867°N, 107.9734°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59537.

Loring Colony exists as a quiet archipelago of human effort adrift in the vast, unyielding sea of the northern Montana prairie. It lies 177.3 miles east-northeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 59°T), and is situated 29.8 miles north of Malta. Little Cottonwood Creek cuts a modest, winding path through the silt and stone only a mile away, its presence marked by the silver-green flickers of willows that seem to bow against the relentless wind. To the north, the terrain gives way to the subtle, sweeping depressions of Barton Coulee, where the grass turns to a brittle gold under the immense, unblinking dome of the sky. Far to the west, the jagged silhouette of the Rocky Mountains haunts the horizon like a dream of granite, though they remain distant enough to leave the air here clean, thin, and entirely unobstructed.

Loring Colony remains defined by the austere persistence of its agricultural roots, where the economy is measured in the cycles of grain and the patient husbandry of the plains. The land nearby, protected under the stewardship of Montana State Trust Lands, preserves a sense of open, ancient stillness that stands in contrast to the methodical labor of the surrounding fields. Life here follows the long, slow arc of the seasons, where the primary rhythm is dictated by the arrival of the first frost or the sudden, fleeting bloom of spring. While Lonetree Lake sits twenty-four miles distant, the people of Loring Colony find their local identity in the immediate, intimate geography of the coulee and the creek, favoring the quiet industry of the harvest over the clamor of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 1.1 mi, 090° E
Phillips County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 7.0 mi, 009° N
Woody Island Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 12.3 mi, 331° NW
Malta Geologic Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 13.1 mi, 179° S
Black Coulee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.9 mi, 252° W · 1,286 acres
Blaine County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 20.2 mi, 251° W
Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.0 mi, 156° SE · 31k acres
Sleeping Buffalo Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 28.2 mi, 129° SE
Early Day Outlaws (Monument) — 28.9 mi, 179° S
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (State Park) — 30.6 mi, 178° S
Pictorial Museum (Museum) — 41.8 mi, 240° SW
Bitter Creek Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 48.8 mi, 094° E · 61k acres
The Battle of Bear Paws (Monument) — 59.2 mi, 258° W
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument (National Monument) — 72.8 mi, 208° SW · 507k acres
Ul Bend National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 78.5 mi, 174° S · 19k acres
H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum (Museum) — 79.3 mi, 259° W
James J. Hill "The Empire Builder" (Public Artwork) — 79.4 mi, 259° W
Cottonwood Cinemas (Cinema) — 79.4 mi, 259° W
Havre Beneath the Streets (Museum) — 79.4 mi, 259° W

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