THE WIBAUX COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Wibaux County has 889.6 square miles of land in Montana. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Wibaux County: Missouri Plateau, River Breaks, Montana Central Grasslands, 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
Wibaux County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Missouri Plateau56.2%
- River Breaks29%
- Montana Central Grasslands12.3%
- Sagebrush Steppe2.5%
Finding your parcel within Wibaux County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wibaux County, including Wibaux. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wibaux County by land and water
The Census records 0.68 square miles of water within Wibaux County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Wibaux County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wibaux County has 829.1 times the land area of nearby Wibaux town (1.07 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dawson County, Fallon County, Prairie County, Richland County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

