Moccasin Montana Map

About Moccasin, Montana

Moccasin is a locality in Judith Basin County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 23. The population density is 28.0 people per km². Moccasin is located at 47.0533°N, 109.9105°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59462.

Moccasin endures as a quiet anchor upon the vast, high-plains expanse of central Montana, where the horizon stretches thin and taut against an enormous, pale sky. It lies 72.1 miles east-southeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 115°T), and is situated 22.7 miles west of Lewistown. The land here unfolds in a repetitive, rhythmic geometry of golden wheat fields and tawny grasses, interrupted only by the occasional fence line or the stark silhouette of a grain elevator rising like a spire above the prairie. Louse Creek traces a modest, winding path through the soil just two miles away, its presence marked by a thin ribbon of brush that offers a rare shade of green in the high-summer heat. While the jagged, snow-dusted peaks of the Rocky Mountains remain a distant, ethereal promise far to the west, the immediate terrain feels intimate and exposed, defined by the stillness of Montana State Trust Lands that border the edge of the settlement.

Moccasin carries the quiet weight of a regional history rooted in the iron rails that once dictated the pulse of the American frontier. The local economy remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest and the patient labor of cattle ranching, a livelihood that demands a certain stoic temperament from those who remain. Beyond the immediate grid of the settlement, the landscape deepens into the subtle depressions of Hauck Coulee, seven miles distant, where the wind carries the scent of dry earth and sage. Life here moves in accordance with the slow turn of the seasons and the shifting quality of light, which turns a deep, bruised purple at dusk, casting long shadows across the fields toward the stillness of Ackley Lake. This is a place where the scale of the world is measured not by speed, but by the resilience of the wheat and the solitary movement of clouds across the plains.

About This Moccasin Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Moccasin, Montana. Coordinates: 47.053301, -109.910472. 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 Moccasin includes the ZIP code (59462), telephone area code (406), county seat of Judith Basin County (Stanford), and school district assignment (Hobson 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.