THE HENRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Loess Prairies setting.
Henry County has 434.3 square miles of land in Iowa. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Henry County: Rolling Loess Prairies, Loess Flats and Till 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
Where the landscape changes
Henry County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Loess Prairies60.2%
- Loess Flats and Till Plains39.8%
Central Irregular Plains in Henry County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Henry County
The atlas lists 14 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Henry County, including Mount Pleasant, Swedesburg, New London. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Henry County by land and water
The Census records 2.23 square miles of water within Henry County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Henry County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Henry County has 50.3 times the land area of nearby Mount Pleasant city (8.63 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Des Moines County, Jefferson County, Lee County, Louisa County, Van Buren County, Washington County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

