THE SHERIDAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Coteau setting.
Sheridan County has 972.2 square miles of land in North Dakota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Sheridan County: Missouri Coteau, Drift Plains, 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
Sheridan County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Missouri Coteau64.6%
- Drift Plains34.1%
- Collapsed Glacial Outwash1.3%
Northern Glaciated Plains in Sheridan County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Sheridan County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sheridan County, including New Germantown/Schiller, Sperry/Goodrich, Prophets. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sheridan County by land and water
The Census records 33.3 square miles of water within Sheridan County, or 3.3% of its total area. That share is close to Sheridan County’s 3.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sheridan County has 27.8 times the land area of nearby Lincoln Dale township (35 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Burleigh County, Kidder County, McHenry County, McLean County, Pierce County, Wells County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

