THE POCAHONTAS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Des Moines Lobe setting.
Pocahontas County has 577.2 square miles of land in Iowa. The mapped landscape region in Pocahontas County is Des Moines Lobe.
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 Pocahontas County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pocahontas County, including Pocahontas, Gilmore City, Rolfe. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pocahontas County by land and water
The Census records 1.42 square miles of water within Pocahontas County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Pocahontas County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pocahontas County has 292.1 times the land area of nearby Pocahontas city (1.98 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Buena Vista County, Calhoun County, Clay County, Humboldt County, Kossuth County, Palo Alto County, Sac County, Webster County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

