THE THORDENSKJOLD LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Drift Plains setting.
Thordenskjold township has 35.6 square miles of land in Barnes County. Its Census reference point is in Drift Plains, within Northern Glaciated Plains.
Flat to gently rolling glacial terrain supports a prairie transition between taller and shorter grasses. Many temporary and seasonal wetlands occupy depressions left in the glacial landscape.
Regional context: Northern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Thordenskjold and Barnes County
Thordenskjold is associated with Barnes 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.
Thordenskjold by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within Thordenskjold, or 0% of its total area. It is 1.4 percentage points lower than the 1.4% recorded for Barnes County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Thordenskjold township has 86.1 times the land area of nearby Nome city (0.41 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

