THE CUSTER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Nebraska Loess Plains setting.
Custer County has 2,575.5 square miles of land in Nebraska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Custer County: Central Nebraska Loess Plains, Sand Hills.
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Custer County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central Nebraska Loess Plains84.6%
- Sand Hills15.4%
Nebraska Sand Hills in Custer 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 Custer County
The atlas lists 43 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Custer County, including Hayes, Victoria, Loup. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Custer County by land and water
The Census records 0.5 square miles of water within Custer County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Custer County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Custer County has 1,275 times the land area of nearby Broken Bow city (2.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Blaine County, Buffalo County, Dawson County, Garfield County, Lincoln County, Logan County, Loup County, Sherman County and other counties within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

