THE DAVIESS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Flats and Till Plains setting.
Daviess County has 563.3 square miles of land in Missouri. The mapped landscape region in Daviess 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 Daviess County
The atlas lists 25 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Daviess County, including Grand River, Jackson, Marion. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Daviess County by land and water
The Census records 5.76 square miles of water within Daviess County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Daviess County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Daviess County has 2,514.7 times the land area of nearby Jameson town (0.22 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Caldwell County, DeKalb County, Gentry County, Grundy County, Harrison County, Livingston County within Missouri. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

