THE GRANT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Grant County has 1,659.2 square miles of land in North Dakota. The mapped landscape region in Grant County is Missouri Plateau.
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
Finding your parcel within Grant County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Grant County, including Winona, Lark, Raleigh. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Grant County by land and water
The Census records 6.78 square miles of water within Grant County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Grant County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Grant County has 1,341.3 times the land area of nearby Leith city (1.24 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Hettinger County, Morton County, Sioux County, Stark County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

