THE TODD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Keya Paha Tablelands setting.
Todd County has 1,388.6 square miles of land in South Dakota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Todd County: Keya Paha Tablelands, Sand Hills, Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains.
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
Todd County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Keya Paha Tablelands89.1%
- Sand Hills8.6%
- Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains2.4%
Nebraska Sand Hills in Todd County
Grass-covered sand dunes form the Sandhills' distinctive rolling landscape. Lakes and wetlands occur in many areas between dunes, while tree cover is limited away from some river corridors.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Todd County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Todd County, including Okreek, Two Strike, Rosebud. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Todd County by land and water
The Census records 2.26 square miles of water within Todd County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Todd County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Todd County has 107.1 times the land area of nearby Rosebud CDP (13 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bennett County, Jackson County, Mellette County, Tripp County within South Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

