THE NEMAHA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess and Glacial Drift Hills setting.
Nemaha County has 407.3 square miles of land in Nebraska. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Nemaha County: Loess and Glacial Drift Hills, Nebraska/Kansas Loess Hills, Missouri Alluvial Plain.
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
Where the landscape changes
Nemaha County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess and Glacial Drift Hills52.8%
- Nebraska/Kansas Loess Hills39.2%
- Missouri Alluvial Plain8%
Finding your parcel within Nemaha County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Nemaha County, including Auburn, Brownville, Peru. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Nemaha County by land and water
The Census records 2.3 square miles of water within Nemaha County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Nemaha County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Nemaha County has 186.8 times the land area of nearby Auburn city (2.18 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Johnson County, Otoe County, Pawnee County, Richardson County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

