Sleeping Buffalo Montana Map
Sleeping Buffalo, Montana — interactive Google street map, satellite and terrain views, Street View, live National Weather Service conditions and 7-day forecasts, real-time local and world news, and an editorial description of Sleeping Buffalo, Phillips County.
Interactive Map of Sleeping Buffalo, Montana
| City | Sleeping Buffalo |
| State | Montana (MT) |
| County | Phillips |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 48.483885 |
| Longitude | -107.528707 |
| Population | 9 |
| Density | 2.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
About Sleeping Buffalo, Montana
Sleeping Buffalo is a locality in Phillips County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 9. The population density is 2.0 people per km². Sleeping Buffalo is located at 48.4839°N, 107.5287°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59261.
Sleeping Buffalo lies under a sky that stretches, an immense canvas of faded denim and bruised twilight, over the vast, rolling prairie. It lies 181.2 miles west of Williston, ND (from Williston, ND: bearing 279°T), and is situated 18.0 miles east-north-east of Malta. The land here is a sculpture of wind and time, a succession of low, rounded hills that cradle shallow coulees, their slopes etched with the pale gold of sun-bleached grasses. A sparse scattering of cottonwoods and sagebrush clings to the earth, their forms stark against the horizon, and the air, when it breathes, carries a dry, clean scent of dust and distant, untamed openness. The silence here is not an absence of sound, but a presence, a deep hum that resonates with the earth’s quiet turning. The history of Sleeping Buffalo is written in the land itself, in the faint traces of homesteads long since surrendered to the elements and the enduring presence of the indigenous peoples who first knew this terrain. The local economy, like the land, is hardy and resilient, primarily rooted in ranching and agriculture, where cattle graze on the boundless pastures and crops are coaxed from the fertile soil under the indifferent gaze of the sun. Occasionally, a solitary hawk circles overhead, a living embodiment of the wild spirit that still imbues Sleeping Buffalo, a place where the sheer scale of the landscape seems to dwarf human endeavors and remind one of the enduring power of the natural world.
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About This Sleeping Buffalo Map Page
This page provides an interactive Google map of Sleeping Buffalo, Montana with street, satellite and terrain views and integrated Street View imagery. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Sleeping Buffalo and Phillips County. Coordinates and population data are also included.
Location data for Sleeping Buffalo is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity, not name matching alone — ensuring the correct Sleeping Buffalo is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states.
| Page generated | June 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. Location verified by proximity — not name matching alone. |
