THE JOHNSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess and Glacial Drift Hills setting.
Johnson County has 376.1 square miles of land in Nebraska. The mapped landscape region in Johnson County is Loess and Glacial Drift 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
Finding your parcel within Johnson County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Johnson County, including Tecumseh, Sterling, Cook. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Johnson County by land and water
The Census records 0.65 square miles of water within Johnson County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Johnson County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Johnson County has 248.9 times the land area of nearby Tecumseh city (1.51 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gage County, Lancaster County, Nemaha County, Otoe County, Pawnee County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

