THE BOWMAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Bowman County has 1,161.8 square miles of land in North Dakota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Bowman County: Missouri Plateau, Sagebrush Steppe, Little Missouri Badlands.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bowman County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Missouri Plateau73.2%
- Sagebrush Steppe16.1%
- Little Missouri Badlands10.7%
Finding your parcel within Bowman County
The atlas lists 28 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bowman County, including Sunny Slope, Ladd, Haley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bowman County by land and water
The Census records 5.25 square miles of water within Bowman County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Bowman County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bowman County has 32.4 times the land area of nearby Amor township (35.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Slope County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

