THE KEITH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Keith County has 1,062.1 square miles of land in Nebraska. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Keith County: Sand Hills, Flat to Rolling Plains, Moderate Relief Plains, among others.
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
Keith County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills37.7%
- Flat to Rolling Plains26.8%
- Moderate Relief Plains18.6%
- Platte River Valley and Terraces16.5%
- Pine Bluffs and Hills0.4%
High Plains in Keith County
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Keith County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Keith County, including Ogallala, Belmar, Paxton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Keith County by land and water
The Census records 47.8 square miles of water within Keith County, or 4.3% of its total area. That share is close to Keith County’s 4.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Keith County has 5,283.9 times the land area of nearby Keystone CDP (0.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Arthur County, Deuel County, Garden County, Lincoln County, McPherson County, Perkins County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

