THE ASHBY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Ashby township has 32.2 square miles of land in Hettinger County. Its Census reference point is in Missouri Plateau, within Northwestern Great Plains.
Rolling semiarid plains are punctuated by buttes, badlands and river breaks. Much of the regional terrain developed on sandstone, siltstone and shale without the leveling influence of continental glaciers.
Regional context: Northwestern Great Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Ashby and Hettinger County
Ashby is associated with Hettinger 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.
Ashby by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Ashby, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.1 percentage points lower than the 0.1% recorded for Hettinger County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ashby township has 89.5% of the land area of nearby Chandler township (36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

