THE HETTINGER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Hettinger County has 1,132.2 square miles of land in North Dakota. The mapped landscape region in Hettinger 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 Hettinger County
The atlas lists 33 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hettinger County, including St. Croix, Kunze, Madison. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hettinger County by land and water
The Census records 1.55 square miles of water within Hettinger County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Hettinger County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hettinger County has 31.2 times the land area of nearby Farina township (36.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Grant County, Slope County, Stark County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

