THE CALDWELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Flats and Till Plains setting.
Caldwell County has 426.4 square miles of land in Missouri. The mapped landscape region in Caldwell County is Loess Flats and Till Plains.
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.
Regional context: Central Irregular Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Caldwell County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Caldwell County, including Lincoln, Gomer, New York. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Caldwell County by land and water
The Census records 3.24 square miles of water within Caldwell County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Caldwell County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Caldwell County has 11.9 times the land area of nearby New York township (35.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Clinton County, Daviess County, DeKalb County, Livingston County, Ray County within Missouri. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

