THE GRIGGS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Drift Plains setting.
Griggs County has 708.7 square miles of land in North Dakota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Griggs County: Drift Plains, Glacial Outwash, 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
Griggs County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Drift Plains72.1%
- Glacial Outwash19.4%
- End Moraine Complex8.5%
Finding your parcel within Griggs County
The atlas lists 25 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Griggs County, including Tyrol, Ball Hill, Pilot Mound. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Griggs County by land and water
The Census records 7.9 square miles of water within Griggs County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Griggs County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Griggs County has 20 times the land area of nearby Cooperstown township (35.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Barnes County, Eddy County, Foster County, Nelson County, Steele County, Stutsman County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.