THE PROVO LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Semiarid Pierre Shale Plains setting.
Provo township has 35.5 square miles of land in Fall River County. Its Census reference point is in Semiarid 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
Provo and Fall River County
Provo is associated with Fall River 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.
Provo by land and water
The Census records 0.05 square miles of water within Provo, or 0.1% of its total area. It is 0.4 percentage points lower than the 0.5% recorded for Fall River County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Provo township has 212.7 times the land area of nearby Provo CDP (0.17 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

