THE EAGLE BUTTE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Eagle Butte city has 1.36 square miles of land in Dewey County, Ziebach County. Its Census reference point is in Missouri Plateau, 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
One place name. 2 county geographies.
Eagle Butte intersects 2 county geographies: Dewey County, Ziebach County. A Eagle Butte mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Eagle Butte by land and water
The Census records 0.1 square miles of water within Eagle Butte, or 7.1% of its total area. It is 5.4 percentage points higher than the 1.7% recorded for South Dakota. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Eagle Butte city has 15.4% of the land area of nearby North Eagle Butte CDP (8.82 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

