THE STAVE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Missouri Coteau setting.
Stave township has 33.3 square miles of land in Mountrail County. Its Census reference point is in Northern Missouri Coteau, within Northwestern Glaciated Plains.
Glaciated plains bridge the wetter eastern prairie and the drier, more broken Great Plains. Numerous prairie potholes and other seasonal or persistent wetlands are characteristic regional landforms.
Regional context: Northwestern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Stave and Mountrail County
Stave 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.
Stave by land and water
The Census records 2.75 square miles of water within Stave, or 7.6% of its total area. It is 1.6 percentage points higher than the 6% recorded for Mountrail County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stave township has 99.3% of the land area of nearby Redmond township (33.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

