THE RICHARDTON LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Richardton city has 2.21 square miles of land in Stark 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
Richardton and Stark County
Richardton is associated with Stark 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.
Richardton by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Richardton, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.4 percentage points lower than the 0.4% recorded for Stark County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Richardton city has 4.4 times the land area of nearby Taylor city (0.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

