THE MINNEHAHA LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Minnehaha township has 32.9 square miles of land in Bowman County. Its Census reference point is in Missouri Plateau, 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
Minnehaha and Bowman County
Minnehaha is associated with Bowman 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.
Minnehaha by land and water
The Census records 3.12 square miles of water within Minnehaha, or 8.7% of its total area. It is 8.2 percentage points higher than the 0.4% recorded for Bowman County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Minnehaha township has 91.4% of the land area of nearby Goldfield township (36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

