THE ANDREW COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Loess Prairies setting.
Andrew County has 432.6 square miles of land in Missouri. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Andrew County: Rolling Loess Prairies, Loess Flats and Till Plains, Missouri Alluvial Plain.
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
Andrew County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Loess Prairies83.6%
- Loess Flats and Till Plains13.5%
- Missouri Alluvial Plain2.9%
Central Irregular Plains in Andrew County
Irregular plains form a transition between northern agricultural country and more wooded uplands to the south and east. Grassland and forest historically mixed, with wider woodland belts beside streams.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Andrew County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Andrew County, including Country Club, Savannah, Amazonia. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Andrew County by land and water
The Census records 3.73 square miles of water within Andrew County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Andrew County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Andrew County has 133 times the land area of nearby Savannah city (3.25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Buchanan County, DeKalb County, Gentry County, Holt County, Nodaway County within Missouri. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

