THE TURNER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
James River Lowland setting.
Turner County has 617.1 square miles of land in South Dakota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Turner County: James River Lowland, Prairie Coteau.
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
Turner County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- James River Lowland87.7%
- Prairie Coteau12.3%
Finding your parcel within Turner County
The atlas lists 29 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Turner County, including Childstown, Rosefield, Salem. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Turner County by land and water
The Census records 0.63 square miles of water within Turner County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Turner County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Turner County has 17.6 times the land area of nearby Hurley township (35 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clay County, Hutchinson County, Lincoln County, McCook County, Minnehaha County, Yankton County within South Dakota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.