THE TAPPEN LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Collapsed Glacial Outwash setting.
Tappen township has 34.7 square miles of land in Kidder County. Its Census reference point is in Collapsed Glacial Outwash, 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
Tappen and Kidder County
Tappen is associated with Kidder 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.
Tappen by land and water
The Census records 0.24 square miles of water within Tappen, or 0.7% of its total area. It is 5 percentage points lower than the 5.7% recorded for Kidder County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tappen township has 33.1 times the land area of nearby Tappen city (1.05 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

