Roy Montana Map

About Roy, Montana

Roy is a locality in Fergus County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 96. The population density is 10.9 people per km². Roy is located at 47.3314°N, 108.9599°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59471.

Roy emerges from the tawny, wind-swept expanse of the high plains as a persistent outpost of corrugated metal and sun-bleached timber. It lies 109.2 miles north-northwest of Billings, MT (from Billings, MT: bearing 349°T), and is situated 28.8 miles northeast of Lewistown. Box Elder Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the earth nearby, its presence marked only by the slightly greener fringe of grasses that cling to the banks against the relentless clarity of the Montana sky. The horizon stretches toward a vast, empty distance where the jagged, snow-dusted peaks of the Rocky Mountains remain a faint, ethereal memory on the western edge of vision. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar weight, pressing down on the sagebrush and the dry, cracked soil of Montana State Trust Lands until the landscape glows with the pale intensity of a bleached bone.

Roy sustains itself on the quiet, cyclical rigor of dryland farming and the steady commerce of the cattle trade, where the economy is measured in bushels and the resilience of a winter herd. History remains grounded in the simple architecture of grain elevators that rise above the prairie like sentinels, watching over a community defined by the immense space between neighbors. The rhythms of the day follow the slow migration of shadows across the fields, far removed from the bustle of the world, save for the occasional passage of a truck toward the distant, shimmering surface of Lincoln Reservoir. Life in Roy demands an acceptance of the wind’s constant voice, a low hum that vibrates through the fences and across the vast, rolling basin of Log Gulch, grounding the spirit in the austere reality of the plains.

About This Roy Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Roy, Montana. Coordinates: 47.331369, -108.959881. 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 Roy includes the ZIP code (59471), telephone area code (406), county seat of Fergus County (Lewistown), and school district assignment (Roy 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.