THE EDDY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glacial Outwash setting.
Eddy County has 630.2 square miles of land in North Dakota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Eddy County: Glacial Outwash, Drift Plains, End Moraine Complex.
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
Eddy County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glacial Outwash51.9%
- Drift Plains29.3%
- End Moraine Complex18.8%
Finding your parcel within Eddy County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Eddy County, including Freeborn, Tiffany, Munster. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Eddy County by land and water
The Census records 13.9 square miles of water within Eddy County, or 2.2% of its total area. That share is close to Eddy County’s 2.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Eddy County has 17.5 times the land area of nearby Tiffany township (35.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Benson County, Foster County, Griggs County, Nelson County, Wells County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

