THE DAVIS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Flats and Till Plains setting.
Davis County has 502.2 square miles of land in Iowa. The mapped landscape region in Davis County is Loess Flats and Till Plains.
Irregular plains form a transition between northern agricultural country and more wooded uplands to the south and east. Grassland and forest historically mixed, with wider woodland belts beside streams.
Regional context: Central Irregular Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Davis County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Davis County, including Bloomfield, Floris, Pulaski. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Davis County by land and water
The Census records 2.67 square miles of water within Davis County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Davis County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Davis County has 220.8 times the land area of nearby Bloomfield city (2.27 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Appanoose County, Jefferson County, Monroe County, Van Buren County, Wapello County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

