# Counties in Nebraska by land in farms, 2022

All 93 values come from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service for 2022, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `farmland_area`
- Unit: acres
- Definition: Land operated by farms in the census year, in acres, including cropland, pasture, woodland and land under farm buildings, as counted by the USDA Census of Agriculture every five years.
- Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture: land in farms, acres, nation, states and counties (1997 to 2022) (https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/usda-nass
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture. Census of Agriculture: land in farms, acres, nation, states and counties (1997 to 2022). Retrieved through Data Commons (datacommons.org). https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/land-in-farms/nebraska-counties

| Rank | Place | acres |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Cherry County | 3,795,779 |
| 2 | Lincoln County | 1,638,602 |
| 3 | Sheridan County | 1,556,968 |
| 4 | Custer County | 1,551,863 |
| 5 | Holt County | 1,542,780 |
| 6 | Sioux County | 1,236,360 |
| 7 | Garden County | 1,084,744 |
| 8 | Morrill County | 909,153 |
| 9 | Dawes County | 841,294 |
| 10 | Brown County | 774,981 |
| 11 | Cheyenne County | 764,545 |
| 12 | Box Butte County | 685,555 |
| 13 | Dawson County | 643,088 |
| 14 | Rock County | 634,797 |
| 15 | Buffalo County | 617,069 |
| 16 | Kimball County | 607,195 |
| 17 | Perkins County | 559,496 |
| 18 | McPherson County | 548,732 |
| 19 | Chase County | 544,157 |
| 20 | Gage County | 541,630 |
| 21 | Dundy County | 527,593 |
| 22 | Antelope County | 525,448 |
| 23 | Frontier County | 514,667 |
| 24 | Grant County | 494,881 |
| 25 | Knox County | 482,157 |
| 26 | Saunders County | 475,844 |
| 27 | Cedar County | 451,579 |
| 28 | Banner County | 447,050 |
| 29 | Keith County | 440,532 |
| 30 | Thomas County | 432,498 |
| 31 | Platte County | 430,831 |
| 32 | Red Willow County | 429,119 |
| 33 | Furnas County | 425,046 |
| 34 | Hooker County | 421,510 |
| 35 | Boone County | 409,932 |
| 36 | Arthur County | 408,830 |
| 37 | Lancaster County | 407,381 |
| 38 | Hayes County | 404,934 |
| 39 | Scotts Bluff County | 381,842 |
| 40 | Otoe County | 368,524 |
| 41 | Clay County | 365,518 |
| 42 | Cuming County | 362,361 |
| 43 | Fillmore County | 361,979 |
| 44 | Hitchcock County | 360,921 |
| 45 | Butler County | 359,127 |
| 46 | Seward County | 359,043 |
| 47 | Garfield County | 356,737 |
| 48 | York County | 349,139 |
| 49 | Keya Paha County | 343,426 |
| 50 | Dodge County | 337,094 |
| 51 | Adams County | 334,735 |
| 52 | Blaine County | 331,846 |
| 53 | Webster County | 324,449 |
| 54 | Thayer County | 322,662 |
| 55 | Nuckolls County | 319,737 |
| 56 | Richardson County | 314,864 |
| 57 | Wheeler County | 313,003 |
| 58 | Kearney County | 308,416 |
| 59 | Madison County | 304,018 |
| 60 | Logan County | 303,050 |
| 61 | Cass County | 299,543 |
| 62 | Hamilton County | 298,232 |
| 63 | Saline County | 286,753 |
| 64 | Jefferson County | 285,075 |
| 65 | Phelps County | 282,710 |
| 66 | Franklin County | 278,695 |
| 67 | Dixon County | 275,098 |
| 68 | Hall County | 273,923 |
| 69 | Valley County | 262,372 |
| 70 | Wayne County | 262,185 |
| 71 | Loup County | 253,891 |
| 72 | Pierce County | 251,807 |
| 73 | Burt County | 249,577 |
| 74 | Harlan County | 245,201 |
| 75 | Nemaha County | 242,887 |
| 76 | Deuel County | 234,166 |
| 77 | Howard County | 230,525 |
| 78 | Boyd County | 227,518 |
| 79 | Sherman County | 222,304 |
| 80 | Polk County | 218,406 |
| 81 | Gosper County | 218,098 |
| 82 | Washington County | 216,575 |
| 83 | Colfax County | 212,605 |
| 84 | Merrick County | 208,714 |
| 85 | Pawnee County | 201,868 |
| 86 | Stanton County | 193,736 |
| 87 | Dakota County | 167,882 |
| 88 | Thurston County | 155,821 |
| 89 | Greeley County | 155,366 |
| 90 | Nance County | 134,404 |
| 91 | Johnson County | 128,141 |
| 92 | Sarpy County | 58,504 |
| 93 | Douglas County | 52,000 |