THE CHEROKEE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Prairies setting.
Cherokee County has 576.9 square miles of land in Iowa. The mapped landscape region in Cherokee County is Loess Prairies.
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 Cherokee County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cherokee County, including Cherokee, Marcus, Aurelia. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cherokee County by land and water
The Census records 0.16 square miles of water within Cherokee County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Cherokee County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cherokee County has 5,105.4 times the land area of nearby Meriden city (0.11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Buena Vista County, Clay County, Ida County, O'Brien County, Plymouth County, Sac County, Sioux County, Woodbury County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

