THE COLOME LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Ponca Plains setting.
Colome township has 35.5 square miles of land in Tripp County. Its Census reference point is in Ponca Plains, within Northwestern Glaciated Plains.
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 ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Colome and Tripp County
Colome is associated with Tripp 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.
Colome by land and water
The Census records 0.02 square miles of water within Colome, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.3 percentage points lower than the 0.3% recorded for Tripp County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Colome township has 125.8 times the land area of nearby Colome city (0.28 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

