THE ANTELOPE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Transitional Sandy Plain setting.
Antelope County has 857.2 square miles of land in Nebraska. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Antelope County: Transitional Sandy Plain, Holt Tablelands, Wet Meadow and Marsh Plain, among others.
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
Antelope County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Transitional Sandy Plain33.6%
- Holt Tablelands26.1%
- Wet Meadow and Marsh Plain23.9%
- Northeastern Nebraska Loess Hills11%
- Central Nebraska Loess Plains4.1%
Northwestern Glaciated Plains in Antelope County
Glaciated plains bridge the wetter eastern prairie and the drier, more broken Great Plains. Numerous prairie potholes and other seasonal or persistent wetlands are characteristic regional landforms.
Read the regional source ↗Nebraska Sand Hills in Antelope County
Grass-covered sand dunes form the Sandhills' distinctive rolling landscape. Lakes and wetlands occur in many areas between dunes, while tree cover is limited away from some river corridors.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Antelope County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Antelope County, including Neligh, Tilden, Elgin. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Antelope County by land and water
The Census records 1.44 square miles of water within Antelope County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Antelope County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Antelope County has 586.3 times the land area of nearby Neligh city (1.46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Boone County, Holt County, Knox County, Madison County, Pierce County, Wheeler County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

