THE DANIELS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Dark Brown Prairie setting.
Daniels County has 1,426.3 square miles of land in Montana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Daniels County: Glaciated Dark Brown Prairie, Glaciated Northern Grasslands.
Glaciated plains bridge the wetter eastern prairie and the drier, more broken Great Plains. Numerous prairie potholes and other seasonal or persistent wetlands are characteristic regional landforms.
Regional context: Northwestern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Daniels County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Dark Brown Prairie89.8%
- Glaciated Northern Grasslands10.2%
Finding your parcel within Daniels County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Daniels County, including Scobey, Peerless, Whitetail. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Daniels County by land and water
The Census records 0.39 square miles of water within Daniels County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Daniels County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Daniels County has 1,937.9 times the land area of nearby Scobey city (0.74 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Roosevelt County, Sheridan County, Valley County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

