THE GAGE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess and Glacial Drift Hills setting.
Gage County has 851.5 square miles of land in Nebraska. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Gage County: Loess and Glacial Drift Hills, Rainwater Basin Plains, Smoky Hills.
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
Gage County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess and Glacial Drift Hills68.4%
- Rainwater Basin Plains21.4%
- Smoky Hills10.2%
Central Great Plains in Gage County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Gage County
The atlas lists 37 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Gage County, including Glenwood, Clatonia, Sicily. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Gage County by land and water
The Census records 8.49 square miles of water within Gage County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Gage County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Gage County has 87.1 times the land area of nearby Beatrice city (9.78 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Jefferson County, Johnson County, Lancaster County, Otoe County, Pawnee County, Saline County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

