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Three Forks Montana Map

Explore Three Forks, 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 Three Forks, Montana

How to Use This Three Forks, Montana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Three Forks, 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 Three Forks.

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	Three Forks
State	Montana (MT)
County	Gallatin County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	45.889568
Longitude	-111.552748
Population	1,989
Density	536.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	59480, 59936, 59752
Area Code	406
County Seat	Bozeman
School District	Three Forks High School District

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About Three Forks, Montana

Three Forks is a locality in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,989. The population density is 536.3 people per km². Three Forks is located at 45.8896°N, 111.5527°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Three Forks is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 59480, 59936, 59752.

Three Forks occupies a sprawling basin where the high plains meet the vast, open sky of the American West. It lies 19.8 miles west-northwest of Belgrade, MT (from Belgrade, MT: bearing 294°T), and is situated 10.9 miles west-northwest of Manhattan. The landscape is defined by the steady, persistent presence of the Jefferson River, which curls through the earth just a mile from the center of the grid, carving its path toward a distant confluence. To the far horizon, the jagged silhouette of the Bridger Range rises in a pale, serrated line against the atmosphere, while closer at hand, the terrain dips into the quiet, shadowed folds of Mud Spring Gulch. The light here has a sharp, clarifying quality, bleaching the grasses to a pale straw color and casting long, thin shadows that stretch across the dry, open ground as the sun begins its descent. At the Three Forks Ponds Fishing Access Site, the water remains glassy and still, reflecting the expansive vault of the sky with a clarity that seems to sharpen the senses.

History in Three Forks is written in the endurance of the soil and the legacy of those who first mapped these plains, finding sustenance in the convergence of the waterways. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the land, supported by a heritage of ranching and the steady, quiet labor of those who manage the surrounding acreage. Life moves with an internal, measured pace, far from the frantic hum of larger urban centers, where the passage of time is marked by the shifting colors of the seasonal grasses rather than the ticking of a clock. While Plunket Lake sits thirteen miles away as a quiet, secluded mirror for the clouds, the character of Three Forks is forged by the immediate, practical necessities of the valley floor. It is a place where the wind carries the scent of sage and dry earth, a reminder of the immense, unpopulated distances that define the surrounding region.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Headwaters Heritage Museum (Museum) — 0.3 mi, 007° N
Three Forks Ponds Fishing Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 0.5 mi, 090° E
Headwaters Railroad & Trident Heritage Center (Museum) — 0.5 mi, 009° N
Blackbird Fishing Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 1.3 mi, 042° NE
Missouri Headwaters State Park (State Park) — 2.8 mi, 058° NE
Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 3.1 mi, 182° S
Madison Buffalo Jump State Park (State Park) — 7.2 mi, 147° SE
Manhattan Area Museum (Museum) — 10.8 mi, 102° E
Black Sage Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 13.6 mi, 306° NW · 5,963 acres
Elkhorn Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 15.8 mi, 345° N
Madison River (Wild & Scenic River) — 16.6 mi, 175° S · 10k acres
Fly Fishing the Misty Madison River (Public Artwork) — 20.3 mi, 112° E
Deerlodge National Forest (National Forest) — 21.2 mi, 238° SW · 1.2M acres
Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 21.3 mi, 185° S · 6,339 acres
Helena National Forest (National Forest) — 23.9 mi, 345° N · 984k acres
Edgewater Farms (Attraction) — 24.0 mi, 010° N
Star Theater (Cinema) — 26.3 mi, 267° W
Jefferson Valley Museum (Museum) — 26.3 mi, 267° W
Regal Gallatin Valley Cinemas (Cinema) — 27.4 mi, 123° SE
Graffiti Quonset Hut (Attraction) — 28.0 mi, 121° SE
Music Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 28.2 mi, 121° SE
Michael P. Malone Centennial Mall (Monument) — 28.7 mi, 122° SE
Rialto (Theatre) — 28.8 mi, 120° SE
American Computer Museum (Museum) — 28.8 mi, 123° SE
Mountain Trails Gallery Bozeman (Gallery) — 29.0 mi, 120° SE
Pete's Hill (Viewpoint) — 29.3 mi, 120° SE
Highland Glen Trailhead (Nature Reserve) — 29.9 mi, 120° SE
Lee Metcalf Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 31.2 mi, 179° S · 238k acres
Montana Grizzly Encounter (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 38.0 mi, 114° SE
History Rock (Attraction) — 38.5 mi, 135° SE

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