THE DEUEL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Prairie Coteau setting.
Deuel County has 622.7 square miles of land in South Dakota. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Deuel County: Prairie Coteau, Big Sioux Basin, Prairie Coteau Escarpment, among others.
Flat to gently rolling glacial terrain supports a prairie transition between taller and shorter grasses. Many temporary and seasonal wetlands occupy depressions left in the glacial landscape.
Regional context: Northern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Deuel County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Prairie Coteau64.5%
- Big Sioux Basin25.4%
- Prairie Coteau Escarpment7.5%
- Minnesota River Prairie2.6%
Finding your parcel within Deuel County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Deuel County, including Scandinavia, Norden, Herrick. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Deuel County by land and water
The Census records 13.9 square miles of water within Deuel County, or 2.2% of its total area. That share is close to Deuel County’s 2.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Deuel County has 16.9 times the land area of nearby Clear Lake township (36.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brookings County, Codington County, Grant County, Hamlin County within South Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.