THE EMMONS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Coteau Slope setting.
Emmons County has 1,508.4 square miles of land in North Dakota. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Emmons County: Missouri Coteau Slope, River Breaks, Collapsed Glacial Outwash, among others.
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.
Regional context: Northwestern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Emmons County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Missouri Coteau Slope66.1%
- River Breaks27.9%
- Collapsed Glacial Outwash3.1%
- Missouri Coteau2.7%
- Missouri Plateau0.2%
Northwestern Great Plains in Emmons County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Emmons County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Emmons County, including Campbell, Linton, Hazelton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Emmons County by land and water
The Census records 46.9 square miles of water within Emmons County, or 3% of its total area. That share is close to Emmons County’s 3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Emmons County has 1,921.5 times the land area of nearby Linton city (0.79 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Burleigh County, Kidder County, Logan County, McIntosh County, Morton County, Sioux County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

