THE NUCKOLLS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rainwater Basin Plains setting.
Nuckolls County has 575.2 square miles of land in Nebraska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Nuckolls County: Rainwater Basin Plains, Rolling Plains and Breaks.
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Nuckolls County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rainwater Basin Plains66.4%
- Rolling Plains and Breaks33.6%
Finding your parcel within Nuckolls County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Nuckolls County, including Superior, Nelson, Hardy. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Nuckolls County by land and water
The Census records 0.66 square miles of water within Nuckolls County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Nuckolls County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Nuckolls County has 704.8 times the land area of nearby Nelson city (0.82 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clay County, Fillmore County, Thayer County, Webster County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.