THE FAIRVIEW LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Keya Paha Tablelands setting.
Fairview township has 37.1 square miles of land in Mellette 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
Fairview and Mellette County
Fairview 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.
Fairview by land and water
The Census records 0.2 square miles of water within Fairview, or 0.5% of its total area. It is 0.3 percentage points higher 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, Fairview township has 150.8 times the land area of nearby Wood town (0.25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

