THE STUTSMAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Drift Plains setting.
Stutsman County has 2,221.9 square miles of land in North Dakota. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Stutsman County: Drift Plains, Missouri Coteau, End Moraine Complex, among others.
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
Where the landscape changes
Stutsman County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Drift Plains50.3%
- Missouri Coteau41.8%
- End Moraine Complex4.7%
- Collapsed Glacial Outwash3.2%
Northwestern Glaciated Plains in Stutsman 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 Stutsman County
The atlas lists 75 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Stutsman County, including Sharlow, Lenton, Sydney. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Stutsman County by land and water
The Census records 76.2 square miles of water within Stutsman County, or 3.3% of its total area. That share is close to Stutsman County’s 3.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stutsman County has 65 times the land area of nearby Windsor township (34.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Barnes County, Foster County, Griggs County, Kidder County, LaMoure County, Logan County, Wells County within North Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

