THE PAGE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Loess Prairies setting.
Page County has 534.9 square miles of land in Iowa. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Page County: Rolling Loess Prairies, Steeply 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
Page County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Loess Prairies54.3%
- Steeply Rolling Loess Prairies45.7%
Finding your parcel within Page County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Page County, including Clarinda, Shenandoah, Essex. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Page County by land and water
The Census records 0.53 square miles of water within Page County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Page County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Page County has 1,974 times the land area of nearby Yorktown city (0.27 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Fremont County, Mills County, Montgomery County, Taylor County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.