THE STARK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Stark County has 1,334.9 square miles of land in North Dakota. The mapped landscape region in Stark County is Missouri Plateau.
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
Finding your parcel within Stark County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Stark County, including Dickinson, Richardton, Belfield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Stark County by land and water
The Census records 5.41 square miles of water within Stark County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Stark County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stark County has 3,677.4 times the land area of nearby Gladstone city (0.36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Billings County, Dunn County, Grant County, Hettinger County, Mercer County, Morton County, Slope County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

