THE CHASE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Sand Plains setting.
Chase County has 894.4 square miles of land in Nebraska. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Chase County: Rolling Sand Plains, Flat to Rolling Plains, Moderate Relief Plains.
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
Chase County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Sand Plains45.6%
- Flat to Rolling Plains30.9%
- Moderate Relief Plains23.5%
Finding your parcel within Chase County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Chase County, including Imperial, Wauneta, Champion. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Chase County by land and water
The Census records 3.07 square miles of water within Chase County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Chase County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Chase County has 295.7 times the land area of nearby Imperial city (3.03 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dundy County, Hayes County, Perkins County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.