THE BRULE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Missouri Coteau setting.
Brule County has 817.2 square miles of land in South Dakota. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Brule County: Southern Missouri Coteau, Southern Missouri Coteau Slope, River Breaks, among others.
Glaciated plains bridge the wetter eastern prairie and the drier, more broken Great Plains. Numerous prairie potholes and other seasonal or persistent wetlands are characteristic regional landforms.
Regional context: Northwestern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Brule County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Missouri Coteau48.8%
- Southern Missouri Coteau Slope39.3%
- River Breaks8.9%
- Southern River Breaks3%
Northwestern Great Plains in Brule County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Brule County
The atlas lists 29 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Brule County, including West Point, America, Brule. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Brule County by land and water
The Census records 29.3 square miles of water within Brule County, or 3.5% of its total area. That share is close to Brule County’s 3.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Brule County has 25.5 times the land area of nearby Kimball township (32.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Aurora County, Buffalo County, Charles Mix County, Jerauld County, Lyman County within South Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

