THE WORTH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains setting.
Worth County has 400.1 square miles of land in Iowa. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Worth County: Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains, 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
Where the landscape changes
Worth County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains50.5%
- Des Moines Lobe49.5%
Finding your parcel within Worth County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Worth County, including Northwood, Manly, Joice. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Worth County by land and water
The Census records 1.82 square miles of water within Worth County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Worth County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Worth County has 395 times the land area of nearby Kensett city (1.01 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cerro Gordo County, Hancock County, Mitchell County, Winnebago County within Iowa. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

