THE CARROLL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Steeply Rolling Loess Prairies setting.
Carroll County has 569.5 square miles of land in Iowa. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Carroll County: Steeply Rolling Loess Prairies, 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
Where the landscape changes
Carroll County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Steeply Rolling Loess Prairies57.5%
- Des Moines Lobe42.5%
Finding your parcel within Carroll County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Carroll County, including Carroll, Manning, Lidderdale. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Carroll County by land and water
The Census records 0.83 square miles of water within Carroll County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Carroll County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Carroll County has 94.4 times the land area of nearby Carroll city (6.03 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Audubon County, Calhoun County, Crawford County, Greene County, Guthrie County, Sac County, Shelby County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

