THE BROADWATER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Townsend Basin setting.
Broadwater County has 1,192.4 square miles of land in Montana. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Broadwater County: Townsend Basin, Big Belt Forested Highlands, Townsend-Horseshoe-London Sedimentary Hills, among others.
Forested mountain ranges rise above grassy or shrubby intermountain valleys. The Middle Rockies combine alpine high country, partly wooded foothills and valleys supplied by mountain streams.
Regional context: Middle Rockies ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Broadwater County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Townsend Basin53.3%
- Big Belt Forested Highlands26.2%
- Townsend-Horseshoe-London Sedimentary Hills13%
- Elkhorn Mountains-Boulder Batholith4.1%
- Mid-elevation Sedimentary Mountains2.2%
Northwestern Great Plains in Broadwater County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Broadwater County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Broadwater County, including Wheatland, Spokane Creek, Winston. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Broadwater County by land and water
The Census records 45.7 square miles of water within Broadwater County, or 3.7% of its total area. That share is close to Broadwater County’s 3.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Broadwater County has 778.8 times the land area of nearby Townsend city (1.53 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gallatin County, Jefferson County, Lewis and Clark County, Meagher County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

