THE LINCOLN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Salish Mountains setting.
Lincoln County has 3,612.6 square miles of land in Montana. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Lincoln County: Salish Mountains, Purcell-Cabinet-North Bitterroot Mountains, Stillwater-Swan Wooded Valley, among others.
The Northern Rockies contain rugged ranges, glacial lakes and mixed conifer forests. Moist Pacific influences reach some inland valleys, producing forest communities unlike the drier mountain regions farther south.
Regional context: Northern Rockies ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Lincoln County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Salish Mountains60.8%
- Purcell-Cabinet-North Bitterroot Mountains24%
- Stillwater-Swan Wooded Valley5.9%
- Western Canadian Rockies5.1%
- High Northern Rockies2.5%
Canadian Rockies in Lincoln County
High mountain ranges extend south from Canada into northwestern Montana. Glacial terrain, conifer forests and alpine country are central features, with more ice-covered highlands than the Northern Rockies.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Lincoln County
The atlas lists 15 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lincoln County, including Trego, Yaak, West Kootenai. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lincoln County by land and water
The Census records 62.4 square miles of water within Lincoln County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Lincoln County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lincoln County has 1,961.2 times the land area of nearby Libby city (1.84 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Flathead County, Sanders County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.