1,625 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.7% since 2020)
1,426 square miles of land · 1 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
2 active community water systems list Daniels County in the area they serve, reporting 1,108 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SCOBEY CITY OF buys surface water · local government · MT0000326 | 1,026 served |
| FLAXVILLE TOWN OF buys surface water · local government · MT0000549 | 82 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 1 people were held in Daniels County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (1988), or 72 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 1983 it was about 0.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Daniels County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $4.6 million — $4.3 million to run schools, about $14,983 per student, plus $138,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $2.1 million state, $423,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.6 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Daniels County about $2.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
33 bridges in Daniels County: 18 in good condition, 11 fair, and 4 poor (12.1%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| IRR - S 251 over SMOKE CREEK · built 1954 | 101 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 224 over COAL CREEK 010 · built 1960 | 100 vehicles a day |
| COAL CREEK RD over COAL CREEK 027 · built 1950 | 100 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 226 over COAL CREEK 038 · built 1971 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $41.2 million of work in Daniels County in fiscal 2025, about $24,819 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Montana are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Daniels County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Daniels County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Roosevelt County (43 mi) · Sheridan County (46 mi) · Valley County (60 mi) · McCone County (81 mi) · Richland County (83 mi) · Divide County, ND (92 mi).