THE PARK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Absaroka-Gallatin Volcanic Mountains setting.
Park County has 2,802.5 square miles of land in Montana. 11 mapped landscape regions meet across Park County: Absaroka-Gallatin Volcanic Mountains, Shield-Smith Valleys, Alpine Zone, among others.
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.
Regional context: Middle Rockies ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Park County intersects 11 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Absaroka-Gallatin Volcanic Mountains33.4%
- Shield-Smith Valleys18.9%
- Alpine Zone10.3%
- Non-calcareous Foothill Grassland10.2%
- Gneissic-Schistose Forested Mountains9.8%
Northwestern Great Plains in Park County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Park County
The atlas lists 14 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Park County, including Pray, South Glastonbury, Jardine. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Park County by land and water
The Census records 10.8 square miles of water within Park County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Park County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Park County has 3,464.1 times the land area of nearby Pine Creek CDP (0.81 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carbon County, Gallatin County, Meagher County, Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

