St. Marie Montana Map

About St. Marie, Montana

St. Marie is a locality in Valley County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 489. The population density is 8.2 people per km². St. Marie is located at 48.4053°N, 106.4985°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP codes: 59231, 59230.

St. Marie occupies a vast expanse of high-plains prairie where the sky asserts its dominance over the earth, stretching in an unbroken, pale blue arch that makes the horizon feel both immense and strangely intimate. It lies 135.2 miles west of Williston, ND (from Williston, ND: bearing 279°T), and is situated 15.0 miles north-northeast of Glasgow. The terrain here is defined by a rhythmic austerity, where the land ripples toward the distant, softened silhouettes of the Calderwood Hills and settles into the quiet, dry depressions of Enright Coulee. Vegetation is sparse and hardy, clinging to a soil that remembers the ancient cycles of wind and drought, while the nearby Montana State Trust Lands offer a rugged, open boundary for the native grasses. During the long, golden hour of late afternoon, the light turns thin and sharp, casting long shadows that sharpen the contours of the earth until the entire expanse seems to glow with the color of dried wheat.

St. Marie carries the quiet weight of its origins as a former military installation, its grid of streets and utilitarian architecture standing as a stark, geometric contrast to the wilder, unmanaged brush that edges toward Porcupine Creek. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a place that has learned to accommodate the isolation of the plains, where the local economy finds its footing in the resilience of dryland agriculture and the quiet maintenance of a landscape that demands constant stewardship. Residents often look toward Middle Reservoir when the summer heat intensifies, finding a brief, cooling stillness near its banks that serves as a necessary anchor for the community. The character of St. Marie is found in these intervals of silence and the persistent, industrious spirit of those who choose to build a life where the wind is the only constant companion.

About This St. Marie Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Marie, Montana. Coordinates: 48.405291, -106.49855. 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 St. Marie includes the ZIP code (59231, 59230), telephone area code (406), county seat of Valley County (Glasgow), and school district assignment (Glasgow 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.