THE MURDO LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains setting.
Murdo city has 0.63 square miles of land in Jones 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
Murdo and Jones County
Murdo is associated with Jones 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.
Murdo by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Murdo, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.1 percentage points lower than the 0.1% recorded for Jones County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Murdo city has 1.8% of the land area of nearby Buffalo township (35.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

