THE NEMAHA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess and Glacial Drift Hills setting.
Nemaha County has 717.4 square miles of land in Kansas. The mapped landscape region in Nemaha County is Loess and Glacial Drift Hills.
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 Nemaha County
The atlas lists 31 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Nemaha County, including Marion, Center, Berwick. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Nemaha County by land and water
The Census records 2.01 square miles of water within Nemaha County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Nemaha County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Nemaha County has 20 times the land area of nearby Adams township (35.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brown County, Jackson County, Marshall County, Pottawatomie County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

