THE MCINTOSH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Coteau setting.
McIntosh County has 974.6 square miles of land in North Dakota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across McIntosh County: Missouri Coteau, Missouri Coteau Slope, Collapsed Glacial Outwash.
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
McIntosh County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Missouri Coteau48.5%
- Missouri Coteau Slope40.7%
- Collapsed Glacial Outwash10.8%
Finding your parcel within McIntosh County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with McIntosh County, including Roloff, Wishek, Ashley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
McIntosh County by land and water
The Census records 20 square miles of water within McIntosh County, or 2% of its total area. That share is close to McIntosh County’s 2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, McIntosh County has 1,515.7 times the land area of nearby Ashley city (0.64 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dickey County, Emmons County, LaMoure County, Logan County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

