THE SCOTCH CAP LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
Scotch Cap township has 35.4 square miles of land in Perkins County. Its Census reference point is in Missouri Plateau, 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
Scotch Cap and Perkins County
Scotch Cap 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.
Scotch Cap by land and water
The Census records 0.48 square miles of water within Scotch Cap, or 1.3% of its total area. It is 0.7 percentage points higher 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, Scotch Cap township has 1 times the land area of nearby Bison township (34.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

