THE DOG EAR LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Keya Paha Tablelands setting.
Dog Ear township has 35.7 square miles of land in Tripp 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
Dog Ear and Tripp County
Dog Ear 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.
Dog Ear by land and water
The Census records 0.22 square miles of water within Dog Ear, or 0.6% of its total area. It is 0.3 percentage points higher 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, Dog Ear township has 99.8% of the land area of nearby Willow Creek township (35.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

