THE RYE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Saline Area setting.
Rye township has 27.6 square miles of land in Grand Forks County. Its Census reference point is in Saline Area, 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
Rye and Grand Forks County
Rye is associated with Grand Forks 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.
Rye by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Rye, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.2 percentage points lower than the 0.2% recorded for Grand Forks County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Rye township has 2.5 times the land area of nearby Falconer township (11.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

