THE TWELVE MILE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Coteau Slope setting.
Twelve Mile township has 62.2 square miles of land in Williams County. Its Census reference point is in Missouri Coteau Slope, 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
Twelve Mile and Williams County
Twelve Mile is associated with Williams 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.
Twelve Mile by land and water
The Census records 7.74 square miles of water within Twelve Mile, or 11.1% of its total area. It is 7.8 percentage points higher than the 3.3% recorded for Williams County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Twelve Mile township has 1.3 times the land area of nearby Stony Creek township (49.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

