THE JONES COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains setting.
Jones County has 969.7 square miles of land in South Dakota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Jones 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
Jones County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains62.6%
- River Breaks37.4%
Finding your parcel within Jones County
The atlas lists 14 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jones County, including Williams Creek, Okaton, Mullen. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jones County by land and water
The Census records 1.22 square miles of water within Jones County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Jones County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jones County has 1,541.6 times the land area of nearby Murdo city (0.63 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Haakon County, Jackson County, Lyman County, Mellette County, Stanley County within South Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.