THE COLVILLE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Coteau Slope setting.
Colville township has 32.9 square miles of land in Burke County. Its Census reference point is in Missouri Coteau Slope, within Northwestern Glaciated Plains.
Glaciated plains bridge the wetter eastern prairie and the drier, more broken Great Plains. Numerous prairie potholes and other seasonal or persistent wetlands are characteristic regional landforms.
Regional context: Northwestern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Colville and Burke County
Colville is associated with Burke 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.
Colville by land and water
The Census records 1.37 square miles of water within Colville, or 4% of its total area. It is 1.7 percentage points higher than the 2.2% recorded for Burke County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Colville township has 23.6 times the land area of nearby Powers Lake city (1.39 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

