THE KADOKA LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains setting.
Kadoka city has 2.29 square miles of land in Jackson 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
Kadoka and Jackson County
Kadoka is associated with Jackson 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.
Kadoka by land and water
The Census records 0.03 square miles of water within Kadoka, or 1.2% of its total area. It is 0.8 percentage points higher than the 0.4% recorded for Jackson County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kadoka city has 6.9% of the land area of nearby Wall township (33.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

