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Sweet Grass Montana Map

Explore Sweet Grass, 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.

Interactive Map of Sweet Grass, Montana

How to Use This Sweet Grass, Montana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Sweet Grass, 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 Sweet Grass.

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	Sweet Grass
State	Montana (MT)
County	Toole County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	48.99611
Longitude	-111.960596
Population	65
Density	52.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	59484
Area Code	406
County Seat	Shelby
School District	Sunburst K-12 Schools

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About Sweet Grass, Montana

Sweet Grass is a locality in Toole County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 65. The population density is 52.0 people per km². Sweet Grass is located at 48.9961°N, 111.9606°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59484.

Sweet Grass emerges from the high plains as a quiet threshold where the sky claims more territory than the earth. It lies 107.7 miles north-northwest of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 344°T), and is situated 34.2 miles north of Shelby. Here, the landscape is defined by the expansive, unyielding horizon of the prairie, where the wind carries the scent of dry grass and the low, persistent vibration of distant weather. To the west, the jagged, snow-dusted silhouette of the Rocky Mountains haunts the far edge of vision, 179 miles away, appearing more like a memory than a physical boundary. Nearer to the center of this expanse, the ground dips into the subtle, parched hollow of Wolf Coulee, while the rhythmic passage of Red Creek cuts through the terrain only three miles away. The light at dusk here is thin and sharp, casting long, bruised shadows that stretch across the expanse of Montana State Trust Lands, five miles distant, where the wild character of the land remains undisturbed by the slow, deliberate pace of human passage.

Sweet Grass functions as a vital seam in the movement of goods and travelers, its economy tethered to the pulse of the international border and the steady transit of commerce moving north and south. The history of the place is written in the grit of the high plains, where the endurance of the land has shaped a character defined by self-reliance and the quiet patience of those who watch the seasons turn. Beyond the transit lanes, the rhythm of life is dictated by the vast, open spaces and the occasional stillness of Twin Lakes, located seven miles away, which offer a brief, reflective pause in an otherwise arid expanse. There is a profound, singular beauty in the way the morning frost clings to the fence lines, turning the familiar markers of ranching and trade into fragile, silver sculptures that vanish as soon as the sun climbs high enough to assert its dominance over the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 4.7 mi, 175° S
Kevin Rim Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 6.0 mi, 199° S
Toole County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 6.9 mi, 135° SE
Glacier County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 16.4 mi, 231° SW
Sweetgrass Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 17.3 mi, 098° E
Cut Bank Penguin (Public Artwork) — 30.1 mi, 213° SW
Glacier Cinemas (Cinema) — 30.1 mi, 214° SW
Veterans Memorial Park (Monument) — 30.1 mi, 214° SW
Marias River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 34.7 mi, 186° S
Camp Disappointment (Monument) — 44.8 mi, 240° SW
Farthest Point West (Monument) — 47.0 mi, 235° SW
Sunset Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 69.1 mi, 253° W
Rudyard Museum (Museum) — 70.6 mi, 115° SE
Glacier Proposed or Recommended Wilderness Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 70.9 mi, 236° SW · 931k acres
Glacier National Park (National Park) — 71.0 mi, 236° SW · 1.0M acres
Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 71.3 mi, 211° SW · 198k acres
Bob Marshall Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 71.4 mi, 212° SW · 1.1M acres
Flathead National Forest (National Forest) — 76.5 mi, 218° SW · 2.4M acres
Great Bear Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 79.5 mi, 223° SW · 287k acres

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