THE FRONTIER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Plains and Breaks setting.
Frontier County has 974.7 square miles of land in Nebraska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Frontier County: Rolling Plains and Breaks, 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
Frontier County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Plains and Breaks99.4%
- Sand Hills0.6%
Nebraska Sand Hills in Frontier 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 Frontier County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Frontier County, including Curtis, Maywood, Eustis. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Frontier County by land and water
The Census records 5.42 square miles of water within Frontier County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Frontier County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Frontier County has 3,720.1 times the land area of nearby Stockville village (0.26 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dawson County, Furnas County, Gosper County, Hayes County, Hitchcock County, Lincoln County, Red Willow County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

