THE PLEASANT VALLEY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains setting.
Pleasant Valley township has 28.9 square miles of land in Tripp 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
Pleasant Valley and Tripp County
Pleasant Valley is associated with Tripp 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.
Pleasant Valley by land and water
The Census records 0.05 square miles of water within Pleasant Valley, or 0.2% of its total area. It is 0.2 percentage points lower than the 0.3% recorded for Tripp County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pleasant Valley township has 81% of the land area of nearby Plainview township (35.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

