THE LOGAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Coteau setting.
Logan County has 992.6 square miles of land in North Dakota. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Logan County: Missouri Coteau, Missouri Coteau Slope, 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
Logan County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Missouri Coteau59.4%
- Missouri Coteau Slope27.8%
- Collapsed Glacial Outwash12.2%
- River Breaks0.6%
Northwestern Great Plains in Logan 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 Logan County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Logan County, including Glendale, Sealy, Janke. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Logan County by land and water
The Census records 18.4 square miles of water within Logan County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Logan County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Logan County has 29.6 times the land area of nearby Red Lake township (33.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Emmons County, Kidder County, LaMoure County, McIntosh County, Stutsman County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

