THE MORRILL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pine Bluffs and Hills setting.
Morrill County has 1,423.7 square miles of land in Nebraska. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Morrill County: Pine Bluffs and Hills, Platte River Valley and Terraces, Sand Hills, among others.
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.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Morrill County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pine Bluffs and Hills35.9%
- Platte River Valley and Terraces27.4%
- Sand Hills25.3%
- Alkaline Lakes Area11.1%
- Flat to Rolling Plains0.4%
Nebraska Sand Hills in Morrill County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Morrill County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Morrill County, including Bridgeport, Bayard, Broadwater. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Morrill County by land and water
The Census records 6.35 square miles of water within Morrill County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Morrill County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Morrill County has 1,188.4 times the land area of nearby Bridgeport city (1.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Banner County, Box Butte County, Cheyenne County, Garden County, Scotts Bluff County, Sheridan County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

