THE BUTLER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains setting.
Butler County has 580.1 square miles of land in Iowa. The mapped landscape region in Butler County is Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains.
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 Butler County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Butler County, including Allison, Dumont, Shell Rock. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Butler County by land and water
The Census records 1.62 square miles of water within Butler County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Butler County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Butler County has 197.9 times the land area of nearby Allison city (2.93 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Black Hawk County, Bremer County, Cerro Gordo County, Chickasaw County, Floyd County, Franklin County, Grundy County, Hardin County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

