THE PHELPS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rainwater Basin Plains setting.
Phelps County has 539.8 square miles of land in Nebraska. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Phelps County: Rainwater Basin Plains, Platte River Valley, 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
Phelps County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rainwater Basin Plains78.2%
- Platte River Valley12.6%
- Rolling Plains and Breaks9.1%
Finding your parcel within Phelps County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Phelps County, including Holdrege, Bertrand, Loomis. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Phelps County by land and water
The Census records 0.66 square miles of water within Phelps County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Phelps County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Phelps County has 127.6 times the land area of nearby Holdrege city (4.23 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Buffalo County, Dawson County, Franklin County, Furnas County, Gosper County, Harlan County, Kearney County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.