THE MOODY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Prairies setting.
Moody County has 519.4 square miles of land in South Dakota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Moody County: Loess Prairies, Prairie Coteau, Big Sioux Basin.
Glacial till plains and windblown loess hills make up the Western Corn Belt landscape. Near-level and rolling terrain are interspersed with steeper river valleys and hills.
Regional context: Western Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Moody County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess Prairies47.1%
- Prairie Coteau27.5%
- Big Sioux Basin25.4%
Northern Glaciated Plains in Moody County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Moody County
The atlas lists 22 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Moody County, including Blinsmon, Grovena, Lynn. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Moody County by land and water
The Census records 1.43 square miles of water within Moody County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Moody County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Moody County has 486.8 times the land area of nearby Egan city (1.07 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brookings County, Lake County, Minnehaha County within South Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

