THE GARFIELD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Montana Central Grasslands setting.
Garfield County has 4,676.6 square miles of land in Montana. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Garfield County: Montana Central Grasslands, River Breaks, Missouri Breaks Woodland-Scrubland, among others.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Garfield County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Montana Central Grasslands69.4%
- River Breaks12.2%
- Missouri Breaks Woodland-Scrubland10.5%
- Sagebrush Steppe7.8%
Finding your parcel within Garfield County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Garfield County, including Jordan. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Garfield County by land and water
The Census records 172.5 square miles of water within Garfield County, or 3.6% of its total area. That share is close to Garfield County’s 3.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Garfield County has 13,399.9 times the land area of nearby Jordan town (0.35 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Custer County, McCone County, Petroleum County, Phillips County, Prairie County, Rosebud County, Valley County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

