THE JONES COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Loess Prairies setting.
Jones County has 575.6 square miles of land in Iowa. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Jones County: Rolling Loess Prairies, 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
Where the landscape changes
Jones County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Loess Prairies60.4%
- Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains39.6%
Finding your parcel within Jones County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jones County, including Monticello, Anamosa, Cascade. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jones County by land and water
The Census records 1.46 square miles of water within Jones County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Jones County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jones County has 784.2 times the land area of nearby Center Junction CDP (0.73 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cedar County, Clinton County, Delaware County, Dubuque County, Jackson County, Linn County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

