To get aerial photos of land in Montana, enter the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. DirtFlight renders the pack in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. No pilot drives out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in Montana. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map that shows the actual climb, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of Montana
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
The ground is vertical and the road is a question.
A flat aerial photo of Montana ground is close to useless. Six hundred feet of relief between the county road and the back line reads as one flat tan rectangle, and the coulee that makes the tract unusable in April looks like a shadow. Sage bench, timbered draw and ridgeline all photograph the same from straight overhead.
The 3D views and the contour map are the part that matters: buyers want to see the climb, the drainage, and what the tract borders before they drive out.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel, everything below. Sage bench, a coulee off the northwest corner, and a gravel county road along the section line.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Montana delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Montana land actually trades.
These are the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any Montana county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order a Montana parcel.
- Coverage
- Any Montana county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Mountain and timber acreage in the west, ranch and grazing land across the plains, dryland wheat ground, and river and recreation parcels.
- Typical uses
- Ranch and grazing land, cabin and recreation tracts, hunting access, and homesites.
- Reads well from above
- Steepness and aspect, timber against open grass, the road or trail in, and the public land or neighboring ranch a tract borders.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the geocode on the property record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting a Montana tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling Montana ground.
Which Montana counties can you do?
Any Montana county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
Does DirtFlight work for Montana ranches, timber and recreation land?
Mountain and timber acreage in the west, ranch and grazing land across the plains, dryland wheat ground, and river and recreation parcels. Typical uses there: ranch and grazing land, cabin and recreation tracts, hunting access, and homesites.
Does the imagery show how steep the tract is?
That is what the four 3D views and the contour map are for. Relief that a flat aerial flattens out reads as actual climb, so a buyer can see the bench, the coulee and the ridge instead of taking your word for it.
Can you show whether there is a road in, and what the tract borders?
Yes. Two track, gravel and the county road are visible where they exist, and the access view marks the frontage. The context map shows what sits on every side, which on Montana land is often public ground.
What is a Montana geocode, and is it what I enter?
In Montana, the number to look for is the geocode on the property record. Enter the county and the APN as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What can you tell about Montana ground from the air?
Steepness and aspect, timber against open grass, the road or trail in, and the public land or neighboring ranch a tract borders. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your Montana parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.