THE PAINTED WOODS LAND BRIEF
Land in the
River Breaks setting.
Painted Woods township has 36.3 square miles of land in Burleigh 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
Painted Woods and Burleigh County
Painted Woods is associated with Burleigh 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.
Painted Woods by land and water
The Census records 1.35 square miles of water within Painted Woods, or 3.6% of its total area. It is 1.4 percentage points higher than the 2.1% recorded for Burleigh County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Painted Woods township has 65.4 times the land area of nearby Wilton city (0.56 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

