THE CASS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Nebraska/Kansas Loess Hills setting.
Cass County has 556.9 square miles of land in Nebraska. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Cass County: Nebraska/Kansas Loess Hills, Loess and Glacial Drift Hills, Missouri Alluvial 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
Cass County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Nebraska/Kansas Loess Hills82.5%
- Loess and Glacial Drift Hills14.2%
- Missouri Alluvial Plain3.1%
- Lower Platte Alluvial Plain0.1%
Finding your parcel within Cass County
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cass County, including Plattsmouth, Beaver Lake, Buccaneer Bay. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cass County by land and water
The Census records 8.98 square miles of water within Cass County, or 1.6% of its total area. That share is close to Cass County’s 1.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cass County has 4,842.7 times the land area of nearby Manley village (0.12 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lancaster County, Otoe County, Sarpy County, Saunders County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

