THE FURNAS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Plains and Breaks setting.
Furnas County has 719.2 square miles of land in Nebraska. The mapped landscape region in Furnas County is Rolling Plains and Breaks.
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
Finding your parcel within Furnas County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Furnas County, including Cambridge, Arapahoe, Oxford. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Furnas County by land and water
The Census records 1.44 square miles of water within Furnas County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Furnas County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Furnas County has 3,376.5 times the land area of nearby Hendley village (0.21 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Frontier County, Gosper County, Harlan County, Phelps County, Red Willow County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

