THE WHITE BUTTE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Plateau setting.
White Butte township has 16 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
White Butte and Perkins County
White Butte 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.
White Butte by land and water
The Census records 0.02 square miles of water within White Butte, or 0.1% of its total area. It is 0.5 percentage points lower 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, White Butte township has 44.7% of the land area of nearby Liberty township (35.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

