THE WORTH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Flats and Till Plains setting.
Worth County has 266.6 square miles of land in Missouri. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Worth County: Loess Flats and Till Plains, Rolling Loess Prairies.
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
Where the landscape changes
Worth County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess Flats and Till Plains92%
- Rolling Loess Prairies8%
Western Corn Belt Plains in Worth County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Worth County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Worth County, including Grant City, Irena, Allendale. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Worth County by land and water
The Census records 0.19 square miles of water within Worth County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Worth County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Worth County has 200.6 times the land area of nearby Grant City town (1.33 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gentry County, Harrison County, Nodaway County within Missouri. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

