THE WHEATFIELD LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin setting.
Wheatfield township has 36.1 square miles of land in Grand Forks County. Its Census reference point is in Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin, within Lake Agassiz Plain.
The former bed of glacial Lake Agassiz forms an exceptionally flat plain in the Red River valley. Thick lake sediments overlie older glacial deposits across this historic prairie landscape.
Regional context: Lake Agassiz Plain ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Wheatfield and Grand Forks County
Wheatfield is associated with Grand Forks 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.
Wheatfield by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Wheatfield, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.2 percentage points lower than the 0.2% recorded for Grand Forks County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wheatfield township has 204.2 times the land area of nearby Gilby city (0.18 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

