THE CHICKASAW COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains setting.
Chickasaw County has 504.3 square miles of land in Iowa. The mapped landscape region in Chickasaw 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 Chickasaw County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Chickasaw County, including New Hampton, Nashua, Lawler. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Chickasaw County by land and water
The Census records 1.33 square miles of water within Chickasaw County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Chickasaw County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Chickasaw County has 150.5 times the land area of nearby New Hampton city (3.35 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bremer County, Butler County, Fayette County, Floyd County, Howard County, Mitchell County, Winneshiek County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

