THE BLACKPIPE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Keya Paha Tablelands setting.
Blackpipe township has 35.9 square miles of land in Mellette County. Its Census reference point is in Keya Paha Tablelands, within Northwestern Great Plains.
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 ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Blackpipe and Mellette County
Blackpipe is associated with Mellette County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Blackpipe by land and water
The Census records 0.12 square miles of water within Blackpipe, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Mellette County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Blackpipe township has 1.7 times the land area of nearby Norris township (21.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

