Winifred Montana Map

About Winifred, Montana

Winifred is a locality in Fergus County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 172. The population density is 126.7 people per km². Winifred is located at 47.5578°N, 109.3749°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Winifred is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 59489.

Winifred occupies a spare, quiet reach of the high plains where the land tilts toward the sky in long, muted swells of earth. It lies 89.9 miles east of Great Falls, MT (from Great Falls, MT: bearing 87°T), and is situated 34.3 miles north of Lewistown. Dog Creek carves a shallow, wandering path through the sagebrush and prairie grass, carving a vein of moisture that catches the low, amber light of late afternoon. To the west, the distant jagged edge of the Rocky Mountains haunts the horizon, a faint blue serration against the vast, pale dome of the atmosphere. Beyond the immediate grit of the soil, the Sig Larson Coulee creates a sharp, shadowed crease in the terrain, while the quiet water of Stafford Reservoir nearby holds the reflection of passing clouds like a polished mirror. The Montana State Trust Lands offer a sprawling, open expanse that defines the character of the perimeter, marked by the scent of dry earth and the persistent, restless motion of wind through the brush.

Winifred carries the quiet gravity of a place built on the cycles of wheat and the endurance of the rancher, a rhythm governed by the harvest and the changing seasons. The local economy remains tethered to the slow, deliberate work of the fields, where the machinery of agriculture hums against a silence that seems to stretch for miles in every direction. People here move with a careful, measured pace, acknowledging the immense distances that separate the small clusters of light from the rest of the world. There is a distinct, solitary beauty in the way the town holds its own, a settlement that acknowledges the legacy of the homesteaders who looked at this open, unforgiving prairie and saw a place to stay. It is a life shaped by the clarity of the air and the profound solitude of the plains, where the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the slow turning of the soil and the fading of the sun behind the distant, shadowed ridges.

About This Winifred Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Winifred, Montana. Coordinates: 47.557759, -109.374902. 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 Winifred includes the ZIP code (59489), telephone area code (406), county seat of Fergus County (Lewistown), and school district assignment (Winifred K-12 Schools).

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.