THE GUNKEL LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin setting.
Gunkel township has 36.2 square miles of land in Cass County. Its Census reference point is in Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin, 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
Gunkel and Cass County
Gunkel is associated with Cass 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.
Gunkel by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Gunkel, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.2 percentage points lower than the 0.2% recorded for Cass County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Gunkel township has 23.6 times the land area of nearby Arthur city (1.53 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

