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Turner Colony Montana Map

Explore Turner Colony, 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 Turner Colony, Montana

How to Use This Turner Colony, Montana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Turner Colony, 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 Turner Colony.

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	Turner Colony
State	Montana (MT)
County	Blaine County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	48.758336
Longitude	-108.43486
Population	135
Density	85.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	59542
Area Code	406
County Seat	Chinook
School District	Turner Elementary School District

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About Turner Colony, Montana

Turner Colony is a locality in Blaine County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 135. The population density is 85.2 people per km². Turner Colony is located at 48.7583°N, 108.4349°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59542.

Turner Colony reveals itself as a stark expanse of high prairie where the horizon stretches into an infinite, pale blue distance. It lies 158.2 miles northeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 56°T), and is situated 58.8 miles east-northeast of Havre. The terrain is defined by the subtle, rhythmic swell of earth, a landscape of grasses that turn from a brittle gold in late summer to a muted, frosted gray as the winter wind scours the plains. A mile away, the Montana State Trust Lands offer a quiet expanse of managed acreage, marking the transition between private agricultural plots and the wilder, open range. Far to the west, the Rocky Mountains exist only as a faint, jagged suggestion against the sky, a distant memory of geological upheaval that leaves this flat, expansive plateau to its own quiet solitude.

Life in Turner Colony moves in accordance with the seasonal demands of dryland farming and the deliberate pace of a rural existence. The economy remains rooted in the soil, with the daily rhythm dictated by the harvest cycles and the persistent, low-slung light that characterizes these northern plains. Water is a precious, measured resource here, gathered in the stillness of Black Coulee five miles off or tracing the seasonal path of Buckley Creek six miles to the south. Near the shallow depressions of Little Jewel Coulee, the land holds a particular stillness, a reminder of the generations who settled this region to work the stubborn, beautiful earth. It is a place of immense, quiet endurance, where the vastness of the sky commands more attention than the sparse, hardworking structures of human habitation.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 0.6 mi, 180° S
Black Coulee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.2 mi, 166° S · 1,286 acres
Blaine County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 4.7 mi, 167° S
Woody Island Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 13.0 mi, 358° N
Dodson Dam Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 23.0 mi, 167° S
Phillips County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 23.6 mi, 060° NE
Malta Geologic Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 23.9 mi, 118° SE
Pictorial Museum (Museum) — 24.3 mi, 218° SW
Early Day Outlaws (Monument) — 34.4 mi, 141° SE
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (State Park) — 36.3 mi, 142° SE
The Battle of Bear Paws (Monument) — 38.4 mi, 253° W
Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 40.0 mi, 126° SE · 31k acres
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument (National Monument) — 54.9 mi, 204° SW · 507k acres
H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum (Museum) — 58.3 mi, 256° W
James J. Hill "The Empire Builder" (Public Artwork) — 58.5 mi, 257° W
Cottonwood Cinemas (Cinema) — 58.5 mi, 256° W
Havre Beneath the Streets (Museum) — 58.5 mi, 256° W
H Earl Clack Memorial Museum (Museum) — 59.6 mi, 257° W
Upper Missouri National Wild & Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 68.8 mi, 198° S · 147k acres
Gilmore Cabin River Stop (Attraction) — 71.2 mi, 202° S
Slippery Ann Elk Viewing area (Viewpoint) — 78.9 mi, 184° S
Ul Bend National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 79.5 mi, 168° S · 19k acres

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