THE SILVER BOW COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Elkhorn Mountains-Boulder Batholith setting.
Silver Bow County has 718 square miles of land in Montana. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Silver Bow County: Elkhorn Mountains-Boulder Batholith, Dry Intermontane Sagebrush Valleys, Eastern Pioneer Sedimentary Mountains, 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
Silver Bow County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Elkhorn Mountains-Boulder Batholith37.2%
- Dry Intermontane Sagebrush Valleys27.8%
- Eastern Pioneer Sedimentary Mountains15%
- Pioneer-Anaconda Ranges11.5%
- Dry Gneissic-Schistose-Volcanic Hills4.5%
Finding your parcel within Silver Bow County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Silver Bow County, including Butte-Silver Bow (balance), Walkerville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Silver Bow County by land and water
The Census records 0.58 square miles of water within Silver Bow County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Silver Bow County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Silver Bow County has 322.4 times the land area of nearby Walkerville town (2.23 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beaverhead County, Deer Lodge County, Jefferson County, Madison County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

