THE BUCKLIN LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Little Missouri Badlands setting.
Bucklin township has 32.2 square miles of land in Slope County. Its Census reference point is in Little Missouri Badlands, 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
Bucklin and Slope County
Bucklin is associated with Slope 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.
Bucklin by land and water
The Census records 0.04 square miles of water within Bucklin, or 0.1% of its total area. It is 0.2 percentage points lower than the 0.3% recorded for Slope County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bucklin township has 12.5 times the land area of nearby Marmarth city (2.58 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

