Explore Springdale Colony, 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 Springdale Colony, 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 Springdale Colony.
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 | Springdale Colony |
| State | Montana (MT) |
| County | Meagher County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 46.461882 |
| Longitude | -111.016328 |
| Population | 17 |
| Density | 0.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 59645 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| County Seat | White Sulphur Springs |
| School District | White Sulphur Springs K-12 |
Springdale Colony occupies a stretch of high, expansive prairie where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the earth. It lies 48.0 miles north of Belgrade, MT (from Belgrade, MT: bearing 9°T), and is situated 54.1 miles north of Bozeman. Cooks Creek carves a shallow, persistent vein through the sagebrush, providing a constant, low murmur that anchors the quietude of the surrounding Montana State Trust Lands. To the west, the jagged silhouette of the Big Belt Mountains rises in shades of bruised purple and slate, marking the transition from the plains to the rugged interior. The light here acts with a heavy, golden patience, lingering long over the dry grasses until the air turns crisp and thin, signaling the approach of a stark, starlit night. Only two miles away, the surface of Alkali Lake holds a mirror to the clouds, its mineral-crusted banks shifting in color from white to pale gray as the sun tracks across the dome of the day.
History in Springdale Colony is measured in the slow accumulation of fence lines and the weathered timber of homesteads that lean into the prevailing wind. The local economy persists as a quiet dialogue between the rancher and the soil, defined by the seasonal rhythms of grazing cattle and the management of land that demands resilience from those who work it. Life in Springdale Colony moves with a deliberate, sparse cadence, far removed from the clamor of industrial centers, where the primary landmarks are the natural boundaries of the landscape rather than the constructions of men. Beyond the immediate grazing tracts, the distant reach toward Manger Park suggests a wider, unpeopled geography that defines the local character—a place where the vastness of the terrain dictates the pace of existence, and the silence is not an absence, but a presence.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Springdale Colony, Montana. Coordinates: 46.461882, -111.016328. 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 Springdale Colony includes the ZIP code (59645), telephone area code (406), county seat of Meagher County (White Sulphur Springs), and school district assignment (White Sulphur Springs K-12).
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. |