Explore Pray, 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 Pray, 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 Pray.
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 | Pray |
| State | Montana (MT) |
| County | Park County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 45.416908 |
| Longitude | -110.648144 |
| Population | 790 |
| Density | 10.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 59047, 59065 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| County Seat | Livingston |
| School District | Arrowhead Elementary School District |
Pray emerges from the high, wide expanse of the valley floor like a quiet pause in the conversation of the earth. It lies 27.0 miles southeast of Bozeman, MT (from Bozeman, MT: bearing 140°T), and is situated 20.4 miles south-southwest of Livingston. The landscape around Pray is defined by the steady, persistent flow of the Yellowstone River, which courses through the territory just a mile away, carving a path through the sagebrush and dry grasses. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Gallatin Range provide a jagged, permanent horizon, while the terrain closer to the settlement is marked by the rugged, uneven topography of Conlin Gulch. The light here has a sharp, clarifying quality, especially in the late afternoon when the sun stretches the shadows of the fence lines across the open ground and turns the dust of the valley into a fine, golden haze.
Economic life in Pray is tethered to the land, an inheritance of ranching and stewardship that stretches back through generations of families who have learned to read the moods of the seasons. Access to the nearby Montana State Trust Lands offers a rugged, unmanicured wilderness for those who favor the solitude of the high plains over the noise of more crowded destinations. Residents and visitors alike might spend their mornings navigating the Pole Gulch Trail or making the trek toward the waters of Heather Lake, finding a rhythm that is dictated more by the needs of the livestock and the shifting weather than by the frantic pace of the outside world. In this corner of the interior, the history of the place remains etched in the simple, functional architecture and the enduring patience of those who call the valley home.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pray, Montana. Coordinates: 45.416908, -110.648144. 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 Pray includes the ZIP code (59047, 59065), telephone area code (406), county seat of Park County (Livingston), and school district assignment (Arrowhead Elementary School District).
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. |