THE TAMA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Loess Prairies setting.
Tama County has 721 square miles of land in Iowa. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Tama County: Rolling Loess Prairies, Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains.
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
Tama County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Loess Prairies54.9%
- Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains45.1%
Finding your parcel within Tama County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tama County, including Tama, Toledo, Traer. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tama County by land and water
The Census records 1.07 square miles of water within Tama County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Tama County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tama County has 314.2 times the land area of nearby Toledo city (2.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Benton County, Black Hawk County, Grundy County, Iowa County, Jasper County, Marshall County, Poweshiek County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

