The county seat there in Petroleum County only has 300 people. The whole county has 435. But, we have a townhouse near Billings, where I live, and that's 2 hours south of the family ranch. And there are no woods there. It would be what you might call high plains, almost desert but not quite, since it's mountain shadow. There are buttes all around, and fossils, agates, and all sorts of cool rocks. Badlands, that's another word for it. You can't see the nearest neighbor, who is 5 miles up the road north, and there is noone south for 20-30 minutes. The dirt road is an old wagon trail that crawls along the tops of some of the buttes. It's quite a view! I like it best in late spring, before the bugs come out but after the rains have made it green, and before the sun makes everything hot and brown.
