THE ARTHUR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Arthur County has 715.2 square miles of land in Nebraska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Arthur County: Sand Hills, Lakes Area.
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.
Regional context: Nebraska Sand Hills ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Arthur County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills63.2%
- Lakes Area36.8%
Finding your parcel within Arthur County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Arthur County, including Arthur. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Arthur County by land and water
The Census records 2.95 square miles of water within Arthur County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Arthur County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Arthur County has 2,306.9 times the land area of nearby Arthur village (0.31 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Garden County, Grant County, Hooker County, Keith County, McPherson County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

