THE MINERAL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Grave Creek Range-Nine Mile Divide setting.
Mineral County has 1,219.6 square miles of land in Montana. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Mineral County: Grave Creek Range-Nine Mile Divide, St. Joe Schist-Gneiss Zone, High Northern Rockies, 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
Mineral County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Grave Creek Range-Nine Mile Divide61.3%
- St. Joe Schist-Gneiss Zone31.2%
- High Northern Rockies5.1%
- Coeur d Alene Metasedimentary Zone1.7%
- Clark Fork Valley and Mountains0.6%
Finding your parcel within Mineral County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Mineral County, including Riverbend, De Borgia, Cyr. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Mineral County by land and water
The Census records 3.82 square miles of water within Mineral County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Mineral County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mineral County has 1,277.1 times the land area of nearby Superior town (0.96 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Missoula County, Sanders County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

