New Rockport Colony Montana Map

About New Rockport Colony, Montana

New Rockport Colony is a locality in Teton County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 194. The population density is 21.3 people per km². New Rockport Colony is located at 47.8636°N, 112.0236°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59422.

New Rockport Colony occupies a vast expanse of high plains where the land stretches toward a flat, pale horizon under an immense and heavy sky. It lies 42.0 miles northwest of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 307°T), and is situated 21.5 miles south of Conrad. The terrain is defined by the steady, rhythmic incision of Spring Coulee, which carves a shallow path through the earth just a mile from the center of the settlement. To the west, the distant, jagged silhouette of the Rocky Mountains haunts the skyline, appearing as a translucent bruise against the deepening blue of late afternoon. Grasses here grow in tough, wind-bent tufts, their color shifting from a dusty sage to a brittle straw as the seasons turn, while the Teton River provides a narrow, life-giving ribbon of moisture that sustains the local vegetation.

Agriculture forms the quiet backbone of New Rockport Colony, with the surrounding acreage largely managed as Montana State Trust Lands that dictate the pace of the working day. Labor remains tethered to the cycles of the soil and the maintenance of livestock, a tradition that has persisted since the earliest families established their homesteads on these windswept plains. While the Eyraud Lakes remain seven miles distant, their presence influences the local water table and the migration patterns of birds that cross the basin each autumn. Life in New Rockport Colony moves with a deliberate, unadorned gravity, where the silence of the prairie is broken only by the low hum of machinery or the sudden, sharp whistle of a wind that carries the scent of dry earth and coming frost.

About This New Rockport Colony Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of New Rockport Colony, Montana. Coordinates: 47.863567, -112.023623. 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 New Rockport Colony includes the ZIP code (59422), telephone area code (406), county seat of Teton County (Choteau), and school district assignment (Choteau Elementary School District).

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.