THE TRI LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Tri township has 113.8 square miles of land in McKenzie County. Its Census reference point is in Missouri Plateau, 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
Tri and McKenzie County
Tri is associated with McKenzie 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.
Tri by land and water
The Census records 11 square miles of water within Tri, or 8.8% of its total area. It is 5.3 percentage points higher than the 3.5% recorded for McKenzie County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tri township has 3.8 times the land area of nearby Trenton township (30.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

