1,717 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.7% since 2020)
2,642 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 McCone County in the area they serve, reporting 1,009 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CIRCLE TOWN OF groundwater · local government · MT0000176 | 644 served |
| DRY REDWATER REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY buys groundwater · local government · MT0004839 | 365 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 0 people were held in McCone County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (1970).
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.
3 school districts have their office in McCone County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $2.2 million — $1.9 million to run schools, about $14,622 per student, plus $313,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $977,000 local (mostly property tax), $863,000 state, $371,000 federal.
Spent $1.8 million — $1.7 million to run schools, about $26,415 per student. Money in: $1.1 million local (mostly property tax), $631,000 state, $81,000 federal.
Spent $553,000 — $513,000 to run schools, about $11,152 per student, plus $14,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $315,000 local (mostly property tax), $219,000 state, $45,000 federal.
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 McCone County about $3.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
43 bridges in McCone County: 5 in good condition, 34 fair, and 4 poor (9.3%). “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.
| S 200 over CEMETERY COULEE · built 1939 | 680 vehicles a day |
| S 200 over DRAINAGE · built 1939 | 680 vehicles a day |
| S 200 over DRAINAGE · built 1939 | 680 vehicles a day |
| S 253 over REDWATER RIVER · built 1950 | 420 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $27.6 million of work in McCone County in fiscal 2025, about $15,945 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 McCone 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 McCone County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Dawson County (47 mi) · Richland County (57 mi) · Roosevelt County (57 mi) · Prairie County (58 mi) · Garfield County (63 mi) · Valley County (65 mi).