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Whitewater Montana Map

Explore Whitewater, 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 Whitewater, Montana

How to Use This Whitewater, Montana Map

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

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	Whitewater
State	Montana (MT)
County	Phillips County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	48.759451
Longitude	-107.627591
Population	75
Density	27.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	59544
Area Code	406
County Seat	Malta
School District	Whitewater K-12 Schools

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About Whitewater, Montana

Whitewater is a locality in Phillips County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 75. The population density is 27.3 people per km². Whitewater is located at 48.7595°N, 107.6276°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59544.

Whitewater emerges from the expansive, sun-bleached plains as a quiet intersection of earth and sky where the horizon seems to stretch into infinity. It lies 190.4 miles east-northeast of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 61°T), and is situated 29.8 miles north-northeast of Malta. The landscape is defined by the subtle, dry creases of Provost Coulee, which carves a shallow path through the prairie just a mile away, while the persistent, thin ribbon of East Fork Whitewater Creek offers a modest respite of riparian green against the arid expanse. Montana State Trust Lands press directly against the borders of the settlement, ensuring that the surrounding terrain remains a vast, unencumbered stretch of native grasses that ripple like a golden sea under the relentless high-plains wind. To the far west, the jagged, distant teeth of the Rocky Mountains barely bruise the edge of the sky, serving as a reminder of the immense scale of the geography that isolates Whitewater from the busier corridors of the world.

Whitewater persists as a singular point of human endeavor in a region defined by the immense labor of agriculture and the patient, cyclical nature of ranching. Life here is measured by the changing intensity of the light, which turns the stubble fields into shades of bruised plum and burning copper as the sun dips behind the distant ridges. While Nelson Reservoir lies sixteen miles distant, its presence is felt in the collective reliance on the region’s sparse water resources, which dictate the rhythm of the local economy and the survival of the scattered homesteads. History in Whitewater is not etched in monuments but is found in the weathered fences and the deliberate, quiet persistence of those who work the land, maintaining a way of life that values the solitude of the plains over the clamor of modern industry.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 0.3 mi, 128° SE
Phillips County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 13.2 mi, 176° S
Malta Geologic Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 13.5 mi, 223° SW
Frenchman Breaks Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 14.6 mi, 050° NE
Hewitt Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.7 mi, 178° S · 1,440 acres
Cree Crossing Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.1 mi, 164° S
Nelson Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 16.1 mi, 168° S
Cole Ponds Fishing Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 16.5 mi, 154° SE
Sleeping Buffalo Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.1 mi, 159° S
Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.2 mi, 180° S · 31k acres
Early Day Outlaws (Monument) — 31.1 mi, 210° SW
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (State Park) — 32.2 mi, 207° SW
Bitter Creek Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 33.0 mi, 094° E · 61k acres
Pictorial Museum (Museum) — 55.4 mi, 250° W
Old Fort Peck Historical Marker (Monument) — 74.3 mi, 134° SE
Leo B Coleman Wildlife Pasture (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 74.4 mi, 133° SE
The Battle of Bear Paws (Monument) — 74.4 mi, 262° W
Powerhouse Museum (Museum) — 75.9 mi, 132° SE

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