Turner Colony Montana Map

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.

About This Turner Colony Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Turner Colony, Montana. Coordinates: 48.758336, -108.43486. 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 Turner Colony includes the ZIP code (59542), telephone area code (406), county seat of Blaine County (Chinook), and school district assignment (Turner 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.