THE CAMPBELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Coteau setting.
Campbell County has 733.8 square miles of land in South Dakota. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Campbell County: Missouri Coteau, Southern Missouri Coteau Slope, Missouri Coteau Slope, 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
Campbell County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Missouri Coteau33.7%
- Southern Missouri Coteau Slope33.6%
- Missouri Coteau Slope20.3%
- River Breaks12.5%
Northwestern Great Plains in Campbell 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 Campbell County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Campbell County, including Herreid, Pollock, Mound City. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Campbell County by land and water
The Census records 37.1 square miles of water within Campbell County, or 4.8% of its total area. That share is close to Campbell County’s 4.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Campbell County has 511.3 times the land area of nearby Herreid city (1.44 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Corson County, McPherson County, Walworth County within South Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

