THE FLOYD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains setting.
Floyd County has 500.6 square miles of land in Iowa. The mapped landscape region in Floyd 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 Floyd County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Floyd County, including Charles City, Roseville, Nashua. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Floyd County by land and water
The Census records 0.78 square miles of water within Floyd County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Floyd County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Floyd County has 135.6 times the land area of nearby Roseville CDP (3.69 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bremer County, Butler County, Cerro Gordo County, Chickasaw County, Franklin County, Howard County, Mitchell County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

