THE ROCK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Prairies setting.
Rock County has 482.5 square miles of land in Minnesota. The mapped landscape region in Rock County is 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
Finding your parcel within Rock County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Rock County, including Springwater, Beaver Creek, Rose Dell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Rock County by land and water
The Census records 0.27 square miles of water within Rock County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Rock County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Rock County has 131.6 times the land area of nearby Luverne city (3.67 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Murray County, Nobles County, Pipestone County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

