THE BENSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Drift Plains setting.
Benson County has 1,388.6 square miles of land in North Dakota. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Benson County: Drift Plains, End Moraine Complex, Glacial Lake Basins, among others.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Benson County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Drift Plains42.3%
- End Moraine Complex39.9%
- Glacial Lake Basins9.8%
- Glacial Outwash8.1%
Finding your parcel within Benson County
The atlas lists 47 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Benson County, including Oberon, Lallie, Riggin. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Benson County by land and water
The Census records 50.8 square miles of water within Benson County, or 3.5% of its total area. That share is close to Benson County’s 3.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Benson County has 38.6 times the land area of nearby Eldon township (36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Eddy County, Nelson County, Pierce County, Ramsey County, Towner County, Wells County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.