THE MUSSELSHELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pine Scoria Hills setting.
Musselshell County has 1,869 square miles of land in Montana. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Musselshell County: Pine Scoria Hills, Montana Central Grasslands, Judith Basin 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
Musselshell County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pine Scoria Hills42.5%
- Montana Central Grasslands30.2%
- Judith Basin Grassland14.5%
- Unglaciated Montana High Plains10.6%
- Sagebrush Steppe2.1%
Finding your parcel within Musselshell County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Musselshell County, including Klein, Camp Three, Musselshell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Musselshell County by land and water
The Census records 2.75 square miles of water within Musselshell County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Musselshell County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Musselshell County has 17,146.4 times the land area of nearby Kilby Butte Colony CDP (0.11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fergus County, Golden Valley County, Petroleum County, Rosebud County, Yellowstone County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

