THE RENVILLE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Black Prairie setting.
Renville County has 877.2 square miles of land in North Dakota. The mapped landscape region in Renville County is Northern Black Prairie.
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
Finding your parcel within Renville County
The atlas lists 30 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Renville County, including Eden Valley, Prosperity, Stafford. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Renville County by land and water
The Census records 15.7 square miles of water within Renville County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Renville County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Renville County has 26.4 times the land area of nearby Grassland township (33.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bottineau County, Burke County, McHenry County, Ward County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

