THE HOOKER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Hooker County has 721 square miles of land in Nebraska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Hooker County: Sand Hills, Lakes Area.
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
Hooker County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills96.1%
- Lakes Area3.9%
Finding your parcel within Hooker County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hooker County, including Mullen. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hooker County by land and water
The Census records 0.54 square miles of water within Hooker County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Hooker County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hooker County has 1,745.7 times the land area of nearby Mullen village (0.41 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Arthur County, Cherry County, Grant County, McPherson County, Thomas County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

