THE GLENDIVE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
River Breaks setting.
Glendive city has 3.47 square miles of land in Dawson County. Its Census reference point is in River Breaks, within Northwestern Great Plains.
Rolling semiarid plains are punctuated by buttes, badlands and river breaks. Much of the regional terrain developed on sandstone, siltstone and shale without the leveling influence of continental glaciers.
Regional context: Northwestern Great Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Glendive and Dawson County
Glendive is associated with Dawson County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Glendive by land and water
The Census records 0.02 square miles of water within Glendive, or 0.7% of its total area. It is 0.2 percentage points higher than the 0.5% recorded for Dawson County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Glendive city has 90.4% of the land area of nearby West Glendive CDP (3.84 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

