[1] The county is located in northwestern Montana between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, known to the Blackfeet as the "Backbone of the World".

Cut Bank arose from the railway[3] and agricultural needs of the surrounding area, and was fostered by an oil boom in the 1920s.

Town resources and services include a hospital and clinic, an historic airport (with regional and international connections), a nine-hole golf course, and a municipal swimming pool.

[5] The incorporated portion of Browning, at 1,400 residents, does not reflect the total population of around 7,000 in the wider community, largely representative of the Blackfeet Tribe on a part of their ancestral homeland, which dates back over 400 years.

Nearby attractions include the aforementioned Glacier National Park, the historic Many Glacier Hotel, the St. Mary River and Irrigation Canal, and Chief Mountain, as well as the Piegan and Chief Mountain border crossings with Alberta, Canada.

East Glacier Park Village, a small winter community, grows in the summertime with many visitors and the summer workforce, hailing from all parts of the globe to meet the needs of the larger population.

St. Mary is an unincorporated community on the western border of the Blackfeet Native American Reservation, located adjacent to Glacier National Park.

The village is the eastern terminus of the Going-to-the-Sun Road which bisects the park east-to-west at a length of 53 miles (85 km).

Fewer than 50 people reside in the village year-round; however, the population increases tenfold on a busy summer evening.

Democratic strength lies in the western and central portions of the county in the Blackfeet Reservation, including the city of Browning.

This mirrored other counties in Montana with high Native American populations, such as Blaine, Roosevelt and Big Horn, which all flipped or leaned more Republican after 2020.