THE NEWCASTLE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Semiarid Pierre Shale Plains setting.
Newcastle city has 2.56 square miles of land in Weston County. Its Census reference point is in Semiarid Pierre Shale Plains, within Northwestern Great 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 ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Newcastle and Weston County
Newcastle is associated with Weston County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Newcastle by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Newcastle, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Weston County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Newcastle city has 1.2 times the land area of nearby Hill View Heights CDP (2.19 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

