THE CODY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains setting.
Cody township has 73.8 square miles of land in Mellette County. Its Census reference point is in Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains, 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
Cody and Mellette County
Cody 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.
Cody by land and water
The Census records 0.03 square miles of water within Cody, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.2 percentage points lower than the 0.3% recorded for Mellette County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cody township has 2.3 times the land area of nearby Zickrick township (32.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

