THE BLACK WOLF LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Smoky Hills setting.
Black Wolf township has 36.4 square miles of land in Ellsworth County. Its Census reference point is in Smoky Hills, within Central Great Plains.
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Black Wolf and Ellsworth County
Black Wolf is associated with Ellsworth County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Black Wolf by land and water
The Census records 0.04 square miles of water within Black Wolf, or 0.1% of its total area. It is 1 percentage points lower than the 1.1% recorded for Ellsworth County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Black Wolf township has 13.4 times the land area of nearby Ellsworth city (2.71 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.