THE TREASURE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pine Scoria Hills setting.
Treasure County has 977.8 square miles of land in Montana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Treasure County: Pine Scoria Hills, Montana Central Grasslands, Sagebrush Steppe.
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
Treasure County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pine Scoria Hills37%
- Montana Central Grasslands31.7%
- Sagebrush Steppe31.4%
Finding your parcel within Treasure County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Treasure County, including Hysham. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Treasure County by land and water
The Census records 6.62 square miles of water within Treasure County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Treasure County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Treasure County has 4,464.8 times the land area of nearby Hysham town (0.22 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Big Horn 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.

