THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Steeply Rolling Loess Prairies setting.
Montgomery County has 424.1 square miles of land in Iowa. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Montgomery County: Steeply Rolling Loess Prairies, 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
Where the landscape changes
Montgomery County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Steeply Rolling Loess Prairies81%
- Rolling Loess Prairies19%
Finding your parcel within Montgomery County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montgomery County, including Red Oak, Villisca, Stanton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montgomery County by land and water
The Census records 0.93 square miles of water within Montgomery County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Montgomery County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montgomery County has 108 times the land area of nearby Red Oak city (3.93 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Cass County, Fremont County, Mills County, Page County, Pottawattamie County, Taylor County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

