Glacier County

What Glacier County does

Glacier County is a county government entity and political subdivision of the State of Montana, headquartered at 512 East Main Street, Cut Bank, Montana. It administers local government services for residents of northwestern Montana across communities including Cut Bank (county seat), Browning, Babb, East Glacier, and Havre, with a 75-mile international border with Alberta, Canada. The county delivers a full portfolio of statutory municipal services through dedicated departments: Clerk and Recorder (vital records, marriage licenses, property and UCC recording), Clerk of District Court (court filings, jury management, passport processing), Sheriff's Office, Treasurer, Health Department, Library, Elections, Office of Emergency Management, Roads Department, Airport, Port Authority, and Northern Transit. Its operating geography encompasses Glacier National Park, the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, and Lewis & Clark National Forest lands.

Glacier County generates fee revenue through unit-priced government services rather than commercial sales. Documented fee schedules include vital records ($7-$8 per certified birth/death certificate), marriage licenses ($53 base, $83 double proxy), document recording ($20 first page, $10 additional), court filings ($90-$200 depending on action type), and passport application handling ($35 handling fee plus federal fees). The county is governed by an elected Board of County Commissioners and does not have shareholders, venture backing, or parent-company ownership. Public communication is conducted through the official website glaciercountymt.gov, rotating commission meetings across five community locations, and standard public-notice channels.

The business model is structurally different from a commercial enterprise: revenue is a mix of fee-for-service payments from residents and businesses, property tax allocations, and intergovernmental transfers, governed by Montana state law. There is no product roadmap, no commercial go-to-market motion, no competitive marketplace, and no disclosed technology platform beyond the public website. The county is in steady-state operation, with annual budgets (FY2024-2025 approved, FY2025-2026 preliminary) but no reported commercial revenue figure in the traditional sense.

Name

Glacier County

Legal name

Glacier County Montana

Website

https://glaciercountymt.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Glacier County is a Montana county government administering local services — vital records, courts, sheriff, treasurer, elections, emergency management, roads, and health — for residents across Cut Bank, Browning, Babb, East Glacier, and Havre, including Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Reservation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Government Administration

NAICS

Other General Government Support (92119), Administration of Public Health Programs (923120), Courts (922110)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Local Public Health & Human Services Administration (BPAIACAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

County/District/Local Health Departments (HLAJAAAB)

Keywords

• Local government services
• Vital records administration
• Property document recording
• Court filing services
• Public safety administration

Headquarters

HQ city

Cut Bank

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Glacier County is a Montana county government that administers local government services for its residents through multiple departments. The county issues vital records (birth and death certificates), processes marriage licenses, records property and UCC documents, accepts court filings, handles passport applications, and provides law enforcement, emergency management, public health, treasury, election administration, library, roads, airport, and transit services. Services are delivered through physical offices in Cut Bank (county seat) and other communities as well as through its official website.

Product overview

Glacier County Montana operates a government services portal that provides access to various county departments and public services. The county offers services through multiple departments including Clerk and Recorder (birth/death certificates, marriage licenses, recording services), Clerk of District Court (court filings, jury services, passport processing), Health Department, Sheriff's Office, Treasurer, Library, Roads Department, Emergency Management, and Elections. Additional community services include Airport, Schools, and Northern Transit. The county is located in northwestern Montana between the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, bordering the Blackfeet reservation and Glacier National Park, with the county seat in Cut Bank and other major communities in Browning and Babb.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Vital Records Services
• Marriage License Services
• Document Recording Services
• Court Filing Services
• Passport Processing Services

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Park County, Wyoming: Park County, WY borders Yellowstone National Park, the U.S. counterpart to Glacier NP tourism. Both are tourism-anchored rural counties with similar national-park-driven service demands from visitors and short-term residents.
• Toole County, Montana: Toole County is Montana's adjacent northern county, also bordering Alberta, Canada with Hwy 15 border crossing. Similar frontier government operating environment, providing comparable small-county services including Clerk & Recorder and Sheriff offices.
• Pondera County, Montana: Pondera is the adjacent Montana county to the east of Glacier. Both are rural Hi-Line agricultural counties with small populations, comparable multi-department county structures, and similar fee schedules for vital records and document recording.

Direct peers

• Lewis and Clark County, Montana: Lewis and Clark County is home to Montana's state capital Helena, providing a comparable full-service Montana county benchmark with analogous county commissioner governance, Clerk & Recorder, Clerk of Court, and Sheriff departments.
• Flathead County, Montana: Flathead County is the larger neighboring Montana county that contains the western gateway to Glacier National Park. Its Kalispell-centered operations serve similar tourism, real-estate-recording, and vital-records demand profiles, making it a comparable county government structure.
• Teton County, Montana: Teton County, MT is a similarly small rural Montana county adjacent to Glacier County with comparable agriculture-dependent population, identical state-level governance structure, and parallel fee schedules for county services.
• Teton County, Wyoming: Teton County, WY (Jackson Hole) operates as a tourism-driven mountain county with comparable national-park-adjacent responsibilities, similar population seasonality, and analogous fee-based revenue from recordings, vital records, and court services.

Broad incumbents

• Missoula County, Montana: Missoula County is one of Montana's largest county governments, providing a broader-incumbent benchmark for the same statewide structure of departments and fee-based services that Glacier County operates, scaled to a much larger population.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/glacier-county

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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