THE LUCAS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Flats and Till Plains setting.
Lucas County has 430.7 square miles of land in Iowa. The mapped landscape region in Lucas 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 Lucas County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lucas County, including Chariton, Russell, Lucas. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lucas County by land and water
The Census records 3.8 square miles of water within Lucas County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Lucas County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lucas County has 114.3 times the land area of nearby Chariton city (3.77 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Appanoose County, Clarke County, Decatur County, Marion County, Monroe County, Warren County, Wayne County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

