THE BILLINGS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Little Missouri Badlands setting.
Billings County has 1,148.5 square miles of land in North Dakota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Billings County: Little Missouri Badlands, Missouri Plateau.
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
Billings County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Little Missouri Badlands56.6%
- Missouri Plateau43.4%
Finding your parcel within Billings County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Billings County, including Medora. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Billings County by land and water
The Census records 4.63 square miles of water within Billings County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Billings County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Billings County has 2,922.4 times the land area of nearby Medora city (0.39 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dunn County, Golden Valley County, McKenzie County, Slope County, Stark County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

