Montana land data catalog

Taxable parcels in Montana with owner, acreage, assessed value and owner mailing address.

Parcel sales, transfers to companies and out-of-state buyers, public land sold to private owners, and splits, from monthly copies of the state parcel roll.

Deeds, mortgages, liens, plats and other documents from county recorder indexes, placed on parcels by legal description.

Homes where the owner’s mailing address differs from the property address, such as second homes, rentals and investor-owned houses.

Land protected by a recorded conservation easement, and the land trust or agency that holds it.

Survey references (COS) tied to parcels, with a link to the county recorder where the survey can be pulled.

City and County of Missoula building permits.

Zoning districts in 19 cities and counties, with a link to each jurisdiction’s zoning code.

City permits. The city doesn't publish a status, so none are open or closed.

City of Bozeman, every permit type. Sub-permits are folded into one project.

Statewide discharge permits (MPDES).

Addresses added to the state address points since the previous monthly copy, which can indicate new construction where no permits are published.

New and replacement septic permits. Other counties don't publish theirs.

Gravel and sand pits statewide. DEQ publishes no dates.

Underground storage tank sites. No dates.

Residential permits for finished new buildings only.

Landfill and solid-waste licences.

Road and bridge projects the Transportation Commission approved.

The five-year tentative construction plan.

This year's permits.

Last year's permits, kept for the timeline.

Conditional use permits approved by the city.

County land use permits outside city limits.

Subdivisions and developments under county review.

Active hard-rock mining permits. No dates.

Development review: site plans, subdivisions, zone changes.

Commercial permits for finished new buildings only.

Subdivisions, zone changes, variances and other land-use items on upcoming county commission and planning board agendas.

Water rights in Montana’s water rights database, with holder, purpose, amount and priority date (earlier dates are senior).

The land where each water right’s water is used, as DNRC maps it (quarter-quarter sections).

Wells drilled in Montana with depth, water level, yield and the driller’s log number.

Oil and gas wells with operator, status, type and field, plus recent permits from the weekly activity letters.

Unpatented mining claims whose BLM case is not closed (active, filed or under review).

FEMA Letters of Map Change in Montana since 1980, which remove properties from or add them to the mapped floodplain.

Flood Insurance Rate Map panels with links to the panel and study downloads.

Levee systems in the National Levee Database.

Mines, prospects and mineral occurrences from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System.

State-listed contaminated and cleanup sites from Montana DEQ.

EPA National Priorities List sites in Montana.

Core, general and connectivity habitat under Montana’s sage-grouse program, which shapes permitting on state and federal land.

USGS stream gages with links to live flow.

Effective FEMA flood zones plus DNRC’s draft floodplains, which are not in FEMA’s national layer yet.

Mapped wetlands and riparian areas.

Soil map units with drainage, septic and building ratings.

Designated critical habitat for listed species.

Quaternary fault traces.

Where homes meet wildland vegetation (2020).

Public land parcels classed by legal public access: open from a public road, corner-locked, or landlocked.

Federal, state and local public land, wilderness, parks and wildlife areas.

Bridges in the National Bridge Inventory with year built and condition ratings.

Dams with owner type, hazard class, condition and storage.

Public and private airports, airstrips and heliports.

Generating plants with primary source and capacity.

Properties on the National Register of Historic Places.

Automated airport weather stations with archive links.

All MDT-counted segments statewide for 2025: Interstates, US and state highways, urban routes and many secondary roads (8,560 segments; 7,458 count sites with 2014–2025 history).

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Lines of 69 kV and above, statewide. This is the same file as the Parcels view's transmission layer.

388 points where 69 kV+ lines end in Montana: 188 named substations, 47 unnamed, and 153 taps.

7 planned generating units that EIA tracks in Montana, plus 1 active Montana requests in BPA's queue.

600 Montana community water systems. Most boundaries are EPA-modelled from parcels and system size (Modeled: 486, System Sourced: 114).

205 small community systems (subdivisions, mobile-home parks, colonies) placed at their reported location.

Statewide on 537,000 H3 hexagons. NRCS 'ENG - Dwellings W/O Basements', dominant condition.

NRCS 'ENG - Septic Tank Absorption Fields', dominant condition.

NRCS farmland classification of the dominant map unit (prime, prime if irrigated, statewide or local importance).

NRCS drainage class (dominant condition, muaggatt.drclassdcd).

Slope computed from the ~30 m DEM, then averaged over each H3 hexagon. Also shows the share of the hexagon steeper than 15 % and 25 %.

Risk to Potential Structures (RPS) and annual burn probability, averaged over each hexagon. Classes are Montana percentiles of hexagons with any risk, at the 40th, 70th, 90th and 95th (the WRC's own break points).

All 56 counties: 1314 levy-district polygons from the Department of Revenue's 2026 map. Total mills with a state/county/city/school breakdown are attached for Yellowstone County (47 districts, tax year 2025).

Statewide DOR register of TIF districts mapped by the State Library: 90 districts (67 existing, 18 terminated, 5 proposed) in 23 counties.

All 25 Montana census tracts designated as Qualified Opportunity Zones in 2018 (2010 tract lines).

The 58 Montana tracts eligible for the 2027 OZ designation round (2020 tracts), with the Governor's selection status from Montana Commerce: 34 not selected by governor, 20 selected by governor, 4 under discussion.

110 of 319 Montana census tracts qualify as NMTC low-income communities (poverty ≥ 20% or median family income ≤ 80% of benchmark, ACS 2016–2020), with severe/deep distress flags.

6 of the 10 MLUPA cities publish their future land use map as GIS: Belgrade, Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Kalispell, Missoula. Each city's own category is kept as the label and grouped into nine shared classes for colouring.

All 319 Montana census tracts (2020 boundaries), ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates.

All 319 Montana census tracts (2020 boundaries), ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates.

All 319 Montana census tracts (2020 boundaries), ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates.

All 319 Montana census tracts (2020 boundaries), ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates.

All 319 Montana census tracts (2020 boundaries), ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates.

All 56 counties, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 county totals: July 1 2020 to July 1 of the latest vintage year.

All 56 counties, annual 2016–2025 plus monthly through 2026-08.

All 56 counties (each sits in exactly one FMR area). Values for 0–4 bedrooms are in the popup and county table.

All 56 counties, County Business Patterns 2023 (fallback for BLS QCEW); the 5-year change compares with the annual average five years earlier.

All 56 counties, County Business Patterns 2023 (fallback for BLS QCEW): latest year vs five years earlier.