THE YELLOWSTONE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
River Breaks setting.
Yellowstone township has 40.1 square miles of land in McKenzie County. Its Census reference point is in River Breaks, 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
Yellowstone and McKenzie County
Yellowstone 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.
Yellowstone by land and water
The Census records 2.14 square miles of water within Yellowstone, or 5.1% of its total area. It is 1.5 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, Yellowstone township has 105.4 times the land area of nearby East Fairview CDP (0.38 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

