THE KNIFE RIVER LAND BRIEF
Land in the
River Breaks setting.
Knife River township has 35.7 square miles of land in Mountrail 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
Knife River and Mountrail County
Knife River is associated with Mountrail 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.
Knife River by land and water
The Census records 0.28 square miles of water within Knife River, or 0.8% of its total area. It is 5.2 percentage points lower than the 6% recorded for Mountrail County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Knife River township has 12.4 times the land area of nearby New Town city (2.89 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.