THE DICKEY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Drift Plains setting.
Dickey County has 1,131.5 square miles of land in North Dakota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Dickey County: Drift Plains, Missouri Coteau, Glacial Lake Deltas.
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
Dickey County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Drift Plains74.3%
- Missouri Coteau18.4%
- Glacial Lake Deltas7.3%
Northwestern Glaciated Plains in Dickey County
Glaciated plains bridge the wetter eastern prairie and the drier, more broken Great Plains. Numerous prairie potholes and other seasonal or persistent wetlands are characteristic regional landforms.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Dickey County
The atlas lists 38 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Dickey County, including Clement, Lovell, Riverdale. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Dickey County by land and water
The Census records 10.7 square miles of water within Dickey County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Dickey County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Dickey County has 31.7 times the land area of nearby Maple township (35.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets LaMoure County, McIntosh County, Ransom County, Sargent County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

