THE BUFORD LAND BRIEF
Land in the
River Breaks setting.
Buford township has 33.8 square miles of land in Williams County. Its Census reference point is in River Breaks, 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
Buford and Williams County
Buford is associated with Williams 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.
Buford by land and water
The Census records 1.68 square miles of water within Buford, or 4.7% of its total area. It is 1.5 percentage points higher than the 3.3% recorded for Williams County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Buford township has 67.3% of the land area of nearby Hardscrabble township (50.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

