Turah Montana Map

About Turah, Montana

Turah is a locality in Missoula County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 364. The population density is 105.4 people per km². Turah is located at 46.8360°N, 113.8301°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP codes: 59802, 59825.

Turah anchors itself to the valley floor where the Clark Fork carves a deliberate path through the landscape, defining the rhythm of the earth itself. It lies 8.1 miles east-southeast of Missoula, MT (from Missoula, MT: bearing 108°T), and is situated 5.9 miles east-southeast of East Missoula. The air here holds a crisp, high-altitude clarity, carrying the scent of dry grasses and the mineral bite of the riverbed. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains provide a jagged, permanent horizon, while the immediate ground rises into the rugged inclines of Bear Gulch. Sunwood Park offers a quiet expanse of open land that breathes with the changing seasons, its grasses turning the color of bleached bone under the relentless intensity of the high-plains sun.

Turah persists as a quiet intersection of transit and tradition, where the pulse of the local economy remains tied to the movement of goods and the stewardship of the surrounding soil. The legacy of the region is written in the silence of the land, far removed from the bustle of denser hubs but connected by the steady flow of the Clark Fork. For those living here, the day is measured not by clocks but by the shifting shadows cast against the ridges and the way the light softens as it settles over the timbered reaches toward the Lubrecht State Experimental Forest. Life in Turah retains an unadorned quality, marked by the simple necessity of maintaining a homestead against the vast, indifferent scale of the Montana sky.

About This Turah Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Turah, Montana. Coordinates: 46.836037, -113.830102. 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 Turah includes the ZIP code (59802, 59825), telephone area code (406), county seat of Missoula County (Missoula), and school district assignment (Missoula High 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.