THE MORTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Morton County has 1,925.9 square miles of land in North Dakota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Morton County: Missouri Plateau, River Breaks, Collapsed Glacial Outwash.
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
Where the landscape changes
Morton County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Missouri Plateau86.8%
- River Breaks13%
- Collapsed Glacial Outwash0.2%
Northwestern Glaciated Plains in Morton 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 Morton County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Morton County, including Mandan, Almont, Harmon. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Morton County by land and water
The Census records 19.3 square miles of water within Morton County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Morton County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Morton County has 772.2 times the land area of nearby Almont city (2.49 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Burleigh County, Emmons County, Grant County, Mercer County, Oliver County, Sioux County, Stark County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

