THE WHEATLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Judith Basin Grassland setting.
Wheatland County has 1,422.5 square miles of land in Montana. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Wheatland County: Judith Basin Grassland, Unglaciated Montana High Plains, Big Snowy-Little Belt Carbonate Mountains, 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
Wheatland County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Judith Basin Grassland52.8%
- Unglaciated Montana High Plains28.4%
- Big Snowy-Little Belt Carbonate Mountains6.4%
- Non-calcareous Foothill Grassland6.3%
- Limy Foothill Grassland4.8%
Middle Rockies in Wheatland County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Wheatland County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wheatland County, including Martinsdale Colony, Shawmut, Twodot. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wheatland County by land and water
The Census records 5.02 square miles of water within Wheatland County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Wheatland County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wheatland County has 2,272.3 times the land area of nearby Harlowton city (0.63 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fergus County, Golden Valley County, Judith Basin County, Meagher County, Sweet Grass County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

