Sun Prairie Montana Map

About Sun Prairie, Montana

Sun Prairie is a locality in Phillips County, Montana, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,615. The population density is 117.7 people per km². Sun Prairie is located at 47.5346°N, 111.4884°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP codes: 59538, 59404.

Sun Prairie occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse of the high plains where the horizon stretches into a thin, unrelenting line of pale blue. It lies 146.9 miles north-northeast of Billings, MT (from Billings, MT: bearing 14°T), and is situated 56.7 miles west-southwest of Glasgow. The land here is defined by the subtle, rhythmic swell of earth and the sparse, resilient grasses that turn to a brittle gold under the weight of the summer heat. To the west, the distant, snow-dusted peaks of the Rocky Mountains serve as a jagged reminder of the world’s verticality, though they remain far enough to leave the sky above Sun Prairie feeling impossibly wide and unburdened. A few miles away, the quiet passage of First Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the dust, while the nearby Montana State Trust Lands offer a sprawling, open buffer of sagebrush and silence.

Sun Prairie persists as a quiet node of industry and labor, anchored by the cycles of agriculture that dictate the pace of every season. The economy relies heavily on the endurance of local ranches and the steady, mechanical hum of farming, where the arrival of the harvest serves as the primary measurement of the calendar. Men and women here move with a deliberate, tempered caution, shaped by the harsh winters and the isolation of living so far from the dense clusters of the modern world. Life centers on the modest infrastructure of the plains, where the occasional silhouette of a grain elevator stands against the dusk, and the nearby First Creek Reservoir provides a rare, still reflection of the clouds in an otherwise arid landscape. Much of the local character is drawn from Tank Coulee, a deep, shadowed feature that marks the terrain with a distinct, rugged geometry, grounding the collective memory of those who have worked this soil for generations.

About This Sun Prairie Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sun Prairie, Montana. Coordinates: 47.534591, -111.488366. 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 Sun Prairie includes the ZIP code (59538, 59404), telephone area code (406), county seat of Phillips County (Malta), and school district assignment (Great Falls Elementary School District).

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.