THE MEAGHER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Shield-Smith Valleys setting.
Meagher County has 2,391.9 square miles of land in Montana. 9 mapped landscape regions meet across Meagher County: Shield-Smith Valleys, Big Snowy-Little Belt Carbonate Mountains, Limy Foothill Grassland, 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
Meagher County intersects 9 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Shield-Smith Valleys38%
- Big Snowy-Little Belt Carbonate Mountains31.3%
- Limy Foothill Grassland13.7%
- Crazy Mountains5.3%
- Big Belt Forested Highlands4.6%
Middle Rockies in Meagher County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Meagher County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Meagher County, including White Sulphur Springs, Martinsdale, Springdale Colony. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Meagher County by land and water
The Census records 2.89 square miles of water within Meagher County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Meagher County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Meagher County has 2,416 times the land area of nearby White Sulphur Springs city (0.99 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Broadwater County, Cascade County, Gallatin County, Judith Basin County, Lewis and Clark County, Park County, Sweet Grass County, Wheatland County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

