THE CURLEW LAND BRIEF
Land in the
River Breaks setting.
Curlew township has 39.3 square miles of land in Tripp County. Its Census reference point is in River Breaks, 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
Curlew and Tripp County
Curlew 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.
Curlew by land and water
The Census records 0.03 square miles of water within Curlew, or 0.1% of its total area. It is 0.2 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, Curlew township has 1.1 times the land area of nearby Lone Tree township (35.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

