THE HUTCHINSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
James River Lowland setting.
Hutchinson County has 813 square miles of land in South Dakota. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Hutchinson County: James River Lowland, Southern Missouri Coteau, Prairie Coteau, 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
Hutchinson County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- James River Lowland88.4%
- Southern Missouri Coteau7.1%
- Prairie Coteau2.7%
- Southern Missouri Coteau Slope1.8%
Northwestern Glaciated Plains in Hutchinson County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Hutchinson County
The atlas lists 36 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hutchinson County, including Wittenberg, Clayton, Molan. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hutchinson County by land and water
The Census records 1.41 square miles of water within Hutchinson County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Hutchinson County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hutchinson County has 15.3 times the land area of nearby Wittenberg township (53.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bon Homme County, Charles Mix County, Davison County, Douglas County, Hanson County, McCook County, Turner County, Yankton County within South Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

