THE BOX BUTTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flat to Rolling Plains setting.
Box Butte County has 1,075.2 square miles of land in Nebraska. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Box Butte County: Flat to Rolling Plains, Sand Hills, Sandy and Silty Tablelands, among others.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Box Butte County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flat to Rolling Plains73.4%
- Sand Hills15.8%
- Sandy and Silty Tablelands8.3%
- Alkaline Lakes Area2.5%
Nebraska Sand Hills in Box Butte 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 Box Butte County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Box Butte County, including Alliance, Berea, Hemingford. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Box Butte County by land and water
The Census records 2.68 square miles of water within Box Butte County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Box Butte County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Box Butte County has 901.3 times the land area of nearby Berea CDP (1.19 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dawes County, Morrill County, Scotts Bluff County, Sheridan County, Sioux County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

