THE FOSTER LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Moreau Prairie setting.
Foster township has 64.3 square miles of land in Perkins County. Its Census reference point is in Moreau Prairie, 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
Foster and Perkins County
Foster is associated with Perkins 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.
Foster by land and water
The Census records 0.12 square miles of water within Foster, or 0.2% of its total area. It is 0.5 percentage points lower than the 0.7% recorded for Perkins County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Foster township has 99.3% of the land area of nearby Englewood township (64.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

