THE HAAKON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains setting.
Haakon County has 1,810.5 square miles of land in South Dakota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Haakon County: Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains, River Breaks.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Haakon County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains77.4%
- River Breaks22.6%
Finding your parcel within Haakon County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Haakon County, including Philip, Midland. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Haakon County by land and water
The Census records 16.4 square miles of water within Haakon County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Haakon County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Haakon County has 2,910.8 times the land area of nearby Philip city (0.62 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dewey County, Jackson County, Jones County, Meade County, Pennington County, Stanley County, Ziebach County within South Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

