THE BOTTINEAU COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Black Prairie setting.
Bottineau County has 1,668.9 square miles of land in North Dakota. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Bottineau County: Northern Black Prairie, Glacial Lake Basins, Turtle Mountains, 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
Bottineau County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Black Prairie49.6%
- Glacial Lake Basins33.4%
- Turtle Mountains9.3%
- Glacial Lake Deltas7.7%
Finding your parcel within Bottineau County
The atlas lists 54 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bottineau County, including Eidsvold, Sergius, Scandia. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bottineau County by land and water
The Census records 28.8 square miles of water within Bottineau County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Bottineau County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bottineau County has 42.5 times the land area of nearby Starbuck township (39.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets McHenry County, Pierce County, Renville County, Rolette County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.