THE LAMOURE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Drift Plains setting.
LaMoure County has 1,146 square miles of land in North Dakota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across LaMoure County: Drift Plains, Missouri Coteau, Glacial Outwash.
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
LaMoure County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Drift Plains79.5%
- Missouri Coteau19.5%
- Glacial Outwash1%
Northwestern Glaciated Plains in LaMoure County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within LaMoure County
The atlas lists 40 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with LaMoure County, including Saratoga, Prairie, Willowbank. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
LaMoure County by land and water
The Census records 4.95 square miles of water within LaMoure County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to LaMoure County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, LaMoure County has 31.9 times the land area of nearby Roscoe township (35.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Barnes County, Dickey County, Logan County, McIntosh County, Ransom County, Stutsman County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

