THE GARFIELD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Garfield County has 569.4 square miles of land in Nebraska. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Garfield County: Sand Hills, Central Nebraska Loess Plains, Wet Meadow and Marsh Plain.
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.
Regional context: Nebraska Sand Hills ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Garfield County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills86.4%
- Central Nebraska Loess Plains10.8%
- Wet Meadow and Marsh Plain2.8%
Central Great Plains in Garfield 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 Garfield County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Garfield County, including Burwell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Garfield County by land and water
The Census records 2.03 square miles of water within Garfield County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Garfield County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Garfield County has 542.8 times the land area of nearby Burwell city (1.05 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Custer County, Holt County, Loup County, Valley County, Wheeler County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

