THE FLAT BUTTE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains setting.
Flat Butte township has 35.5 square miles of land in Pennington County. Its Census reference point is in Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains, 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
Flat Butte and Pennington County
Flat Butte is associated with Pennington 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.
Flat Butte by land and water
The Census records 0.29 square miles of water within Flat Butte, or 0.8% of its total area. It is 0.5 percentage points higher than the 0.3% recorded for Pennington County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Flat Butte township has 1 times the land area of nearby Quinn township (34.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

