Explore Midway 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Midway 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 Midway 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 | Midway Colony |
| State | Montana (MT) |
| County | Pondera County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 48.067792 |
| Longitude | -111.995396 |
| Population | 100 |
| Density | 73.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 59416 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| County Seat | Conrad |
| School District | Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools |
Midway Colony persists as a quiet arrangement of structures upon the expansive, wind-swept plains of Montana. It lies 50.8 miles northwest of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 321°T), and is situated 7.4 miles south-southwest of Conrad. The horizon here feels immense, a wide-brimmed bowl of sky that presses down upon the earth, bleaching the grass to a pale, brittle gold by mid-summer. To the west, the jagged, distant silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains provide a formidable boundary, though they remain far enough to feel like a dream rather than a neighbor. The land itself is defined by the sharp, downward pull of Aldrich Coulee, while the quiet presence of Eyraud Lakes sits nearby, offering a rare, still reflection of the clouds. When the light shifts at dusk, the shadows lengthen across the flat terrain, turning the dry soil into a deep, bruised violet that seems to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has vanished.
Midway Colony maintains a singular, disciplined way of life, anchored by a deep commitment to agriculture that dictates the rhythm of every season. The surrounding Montana State Trust Lands act as a buffer of untamed space, preserving the austere character of the prairie while the community focuses on the cultivation of the soil and the tending of livestock. Though the rush of Muddy Creek flows miles away, the necessity of water remains a quiet, constant preoccupation for those who work the land. There is a profound sense of solitude here, an economy built on the slow accumulation of harvest and the stubborn resilience required to thrive in such an isolated expanse. Life in Midway Colony is measured not by the noise of the modern world, but by the steady, repetitive tasks that define the year, creating a existence that feels as enduring as the plains themselves.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Midway Colony, Montana. Coordinates: 48.067792, -111.995396. 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 Midway Colony includes the ZIP code (59416), telephone area code (406), county seat of Pondera County (Conrad), and school district assignment (Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools).
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. |