THE KNUTE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lake Agassiz Plains setting.
Knute township has 31.7 square miles of land in Polk County. Its Census reference point is in Lake Agassiz Plains, within Lake Agassiz Plain.
The former bed of glacial Lake Agassiz forms an exceptionally flat plain in the Red River valley. Thick lake sediments overlie older glacial deposits across this historic prairie landscape.
Regional context: Lake Agassiz Plain ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Knute and Polk County
Knute is associated with Polk 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.
Knute by land and water
The Census records 3.39 square miles of water within Knute, or 9.7% of its total area. It is 8.3 percentage points higher than the 1.3% recorded for Polk County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Knute township has 49.1 times the land area of nearby Erskine city (0.65 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

