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==Geography== According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|2383|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|2372|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|11|sqmi}} (0.5%) is water.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 22, 2012 |title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_30.txt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205145322/http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_30.txt |archive-date=December 5, 2014 |access-date=November 28, 2014 |publisher=United States Census Bureau}}</ref> Dawson County is located in the extreme eastern portion of Montana, about fifteen to twenty miles west of the Dakota line.<ref name=ST/> Dawson County contains part of Montana's [[badlands]]. [[Makoshika State Park]] is an example of that area's unusual rock formations. Dawson County's principal water sources are the [[Yellowstone River]], which bisects its southeastern section, and the [[Redwater River]] in its northwest corner. Numerous creeks are tributary to these streams, furnishing abundant and accessible facilities watering livestock and for small irrigation enterprises and water conservation projects. In the upper bench lands, artesian well irrigation has received considerable attention. The largest [[Triceratops]] skull ever found was discovered in 1992 and excavated in 2003 in Dawson County, Montana, in the famous [[Hell Creek Formation]]. It is a 65-million-year-old male Triceratops skull, 9.2 feet long, 5.2 feet high and 4.6 feet wide and weighing over 600 kg. It has been dubbed 'Dragon King' and is understood to be the most expensive skull to ever trade privately.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 25, 2015 |title=Yours for US$1.8m or more: 'world's biggest dinosaur' skull on sale in Hong Kong |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/1776194/yours-us18m-worlds-biggest-dinosaur-skull-sale-hong-kong}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 23, 2015 |title=How a $1.8 million dinosaur skull went from Montana to Hong Kong |url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/04/23/luxury/dinosaur-triceratops-skull-hong-kong/}}</ref> Parts of Dawson County were taken to form [[Valley County, Montana|Valley County]] in 1893, [[Richland County, Montana|Richland County]] and part of [[Wibaux County, Montana|Wibaux County]] in 1914, part of [[Prairie County, Montana|Prairie County]] in 1915, and [[Garfield County, Montana|Garfield County]] and part of [[McCone County, Montana|McCone County]] in 1919.<ref name="ST">{{Cite book |last=Stout |first=Tom |url=https://archive.org/details/montanaitsstorya01stourich |title=Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout |date=1921 |publisher=American Historical Society |location=Chicago IL |access-date=December 7, 2013}}</ref> ===Major highways=== {{div col}} * [[Image:I-94.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 94 in Montana|Interstate 94]] * [[Image:US 10.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 10]] (Former) * [[Image:MT-16.svg|20px]] [[Montana Highway 16]] * [[Image:MT-200.svg|20px]] [[Montana Highway 200]] * [[Image:MT-200.svg|20px]] [[Montana Highway 200]] (Alternate) * [[Montana Highway 254]] {{div col end}} In 1920, Dawson County was traversed by the National Parks Highway or Red Trail, the Black Trail, the Green Trail and the Blue Trail, all of which passed through Glendive.<ref name=ST/> ===Transit=== *[[Jefferson Lines]] ===Adjacent counties=== {{div col}} * [[Richland County, Montana|Richland County]] - north * [[Wibaux County, Montana|Wibaux County]] - east * [[Prairie County, Montana|Prairie County]] - south * [[McCone County, Montana|McCone County]] - west {{div col end}}
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