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Winston Montana Map

Explore Winston, 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 Winston, Montana

How to Use This Winston, Montana Map

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

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

Latitude	46.468431
Longitude	-111.665223
Population	169
Density	12.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	59647
Area Code	406
County Seat	Townsend
School District	Townsend K-12 Schools

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About Winston, Montana

Winston is a locality in Broadwater County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 169. The population density is 12.5 people per km². Winston is located at 46.4684°N, 111.6652°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59647.

Winston occupies a quiet expanse of high-altitude ground where the earth seems to exhale under the weight of an immense, cloud-streaked sky. It lies 19.6 miles east-southeast of Helena, MT (from Helena, MT: bearing 114°T), and is situated 15.4 miles southeast of Helena Valley Southeast. Beaver Creek carves a thin, riparian ribbon through the sagebrush a mile away, its presence marked by a subtle thickening of willow and cottonwood against the dry, sun-bleached grasses. To the west, the jagged, shadowed silhouettes of the Big Belt Mountains anchor the horizon, standing as a permanent, stoic barrier against the shifting weather. The light here has a peculiar, sharpening quality, clarifying the edges of every fence post and outcropping until the landscape assumes the crisp intensity of a developed photograph. Nearby, the terrain dips toward the gentle depressions of Kelly Spring Gulch, where the soil holds a deeper, more persistent moisture that invites a tangle of wilder, seasonal flora.

Winston retains the weathered character of a place built on the steady, patient labor of the land, shaped by the cycles of ranching and the slow passage of freight across the plains. The proximity of Montana State Trust Lands provides a vast, open buffer that preserves the austere isolation defining the local pace of life. Residents look toward the expansive waters of Canyon Ferry Lake for a respite from the dust, finding in its broad, wind-rippled surface a reflection of the same vastness that governs the surrounding hills. History here is written not in monuments, but in the persistent maintenance of barbed-wire boundaries and the functional architecture of homesteads that have weathered a century of harsh winters. In Winston, the economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, a quiet endurance that values the utility of a well-tended pasture over the noisy distractions of the wider world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Elkhorn Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.8 mi, 162° S
Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 1.2 mi, 360° N
Helena National Forest (National Forest) — 2.0 mi, 204° SW · 984k acres
Canyon Ferry Lake (Resource Management Area) — 4.5 mi, 021° N
Canyon Ferry Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.3 mi, 142° SE
Lorelei day use area (Attraction) — 10.4 mi, 349° N
Fish Hawk Day use Area (Attraction) — 11.7 mi, 348° N
Helena Valley Reservoir Fishing Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 14.8 mi, 323° NW
Deerlodge National Forest (National Forest) — 16.1 mi, 213° SW · 1.2M acres
Elkhorn Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 16.8 mi, 241° SW · 3,567 acres
Two Camps Vista (Viewpoint) — 17.4 mi, 337° NW
Muskrat Creek (Wild & Scenic River) — 17.9 mi, 234° SW · 985 acres
Pearl Harbor Memorial (Monument) — 18.4 mi, 296° NW
10 Commandments (Monument) — 18.6 mi, 296° NW
Montana Heritage Center (Museum) — 18.6 mi, 296° NW
Thomas Francis Meagher Statue (Public Artwork) — 18.7 mi, 296° NW
Edgewater Farms (Attraction) — 18.9 mi, 150° SE
Grandstreet Theater Scene Shop (Theatre) — 19.0 mi, 298° NW
Helena Avenue Theater (Theatre) — 19.0 mi, 298° NW
Robert and Elizabeth Fisk House (Monument) — 19.3 mi, 295° NW
Lime Kiln Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 19.4 mi, 292° W
Mountain Sage Gallery (Gallery) — 19.6 mi, 296° NW
Omerta Arts (Gallery) — 19.7 mi, 296° NW
Mountain West Voices (Arts Centre) — 19.7 mi, 294° NW
Reeder's Alley Interpretive And Convention Center (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 294° NW
Four Georgians Mine (Historic Ruins) — 19.7 mi, 294° NW
Cinemark Helena & XD (Cinema) — 19.8 mi, 296° NW
Missouri River (Wild & Scenic River) — 23.0 mi, 333° NW · 1,055 acres
Gates Of The Mountains Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 25.9 mi, 347° N · 28k acres
Black Sage Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 28.7 mi, 198° S · 5,963 acres

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