THE BOONE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Des Moines Lobe setting.
Boone County has 570.5 square miles of land in Iowa. The mapped landscape region in Boone County is Des Moines Lobe.
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
Finding your parcel within Boone County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Boone County, including Boone, Woodward, Slater. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Boone County by land and water
The Census records 3.17 square miles of water within Boone County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Boone County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Boone County has 61.7 times the land area of nearby Boone city (9.25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dallas County, Greene County, Hamilton County, Polk County, Story County, Webster County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

