THE SUNNY SLOPE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Little Missouri Badlands setting.
Sunny Slope township has 51.2 square miles of land in Bowman County. Its Census reference point is in Little Missouri Badlands, 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
Sunny Slope and Bowman County
Sunny Slope 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.
Sunny Slope by land and water
The Census records 0.11 square miles of water within Sunny Slope, or 0.2% of its total area. It is 0.2 percentage points lower 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, Sunny Slope township has 19.9 times the land area of nearby Marmarth city (2.58 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

