THE KEOKUK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Loess Prairies setting.
Keokuk County has 579.2 square miles of land in Iowa. The mapped landscape region in Keokuk County is Rolling Loess Prairies.
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 Keokuk County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Keokuk County, including Sigourney, Hedrick, What Cheer. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Keokuk County by land and water
The Census records 0.75 square miles of water within Keokuk County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Keokuk County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Keokuk County has 267.8 times the land area of nearby Sigourney city (2.16 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Iowa County, Jefferson County, Mahaska County, Poweshiek County, Wapello County, Washington County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

