THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
River Hills setting.
Montgomery County has 535 square miles of land in Missouri. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Montgomery County: River Hills, Claypan Prairie.
Broad terraced river valleys contrast with wooded slopes and dissected glacial plains. Bottomland settings and upland oak landscapes occur close together across the Interior River Valleys and Hills.
Regional context: Interior River Valleys and Hills ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Montgomery County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- River Hills54.4%
- Claypan Prairie45.6%
Central Irregular Plains in Montgomery County
Irregular plains form a transition between northern agricultural country and more wooded uplands to the south and east. Grassland and forest historically mixed, with wider woodland belts beside streams.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Montgomery County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montgomery County, including Montgomery City, Big Spring, New Florence. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montgomery County by land and water
The Census records 5.44 square miles of water within Montgomery County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Montgomery County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montgomery County has 177.9 times the land area of nearby New Florence city (3.01 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Audrain County, Callaway County, Gasconade County, Lincoln County, Osage County, Pike County, Warren County within Missouri. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

