THE PIERCE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Transitional Sandy Plain setting.
Pierce County has 573.2 square miles of land in Nebraska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Pierce County: Transitional Sandy Plain, Northeastern Nebraska Loess Hills.
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
Pierce County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Transitional Sandy Plain66.4%
- Northeastern Nebraska Loess Hills33.6%
Finding your parcel within Pierce County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pierce County, including Plainview, Randolph, Pierce. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pierce County by land and water
The Census records 1.34 square miles of water within Pierce County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Pierce County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pierce County has 2,570.6 times the land area of nearby Foster village (0.22 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Antelope County, Cedar County, Knox County, Madison County, Stanton County, Wayne County within Nebraska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

