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Look up property lines and lot boundaries in Iowa. Coverage is 2,483,378 lots across 99 counties, covering 34,085,206 mapped acres. 469,001 of those lots are held by institutions rather than by individuals.

Farmers and landowners in Iowa received $2 billion in federal farm program payments in 2025, paid to 102,467 recipients. 509,572 acres of agricultural land here are disclosed as foreign-held, the most by owners from Canada. Crop insurance paid $542.7 million in claims for the 2024 crop year.

99
Counties
2,483,378
Lots mapped
34,085,206
Acres
469,001
Institutional

Largest landowners in Iowa

Largest institutional landowners by acreage in Iowa
OwnerParcelsAcres
STATE OF IOWA7,070114,073
AMANA SOCIETY71323,507
VAN DIEST FAMILY LLC52316,482
VanDiest Family LLC46915,613
Radar Enterprises LLC44615,090
Midwest Oilseeds Inc42113,469
KRUGER FARMS INC17213,079
POLK COUNTY2,66212,807
DESERET TRUST COMPANY34012,667
IOWA, STATE OF96912,104

Companies, trusts and public agencies, by acres held under one name across Iowa's county records. See the top 50

Federal farm payments in Iowa

$2B
Paid in 2025
102,467
Recipients
Federal farm program payments by program in Iowa, 2025
ProgramPaid
Emergency Commodity Assistance Program$835.3M
Supplemental Disaster Relief Non-Spec Crops$542.7M
CRP Payment - Annual Rental$398.9M
Agricultural Risk Coverage Program - County$162.9M
Emergency Livestock Relief Program 2023-24$17.3M
Livestock Indeminity Payments Program$5.2M

USDA Farm Service Agency payment files, 2025. Compare farm subsidies by county

Foreign-held farmland in Iowa

509,572
Acres disclosed
1,757
Holdings
Foreign-held agricultural land by country in Iowa, 2024
CountryAcres
Canada198,352
Italy85,758
France53,625
Portugal52,098
Spain25,325
No foreign investor listed21,461

USDA Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act filings, holdings at the end of 2024. Only disclosed interests are counted. See foreign-owned farmland by county

Crop insurance in Iowa

125,422
Policies
22,377,166
Insured acres
$542.7M
Claims paid
0.53
Loss ratio
Crop insurance claims by crop in Iowa, 2024
CropClaims
Corn$301.1M
Soybeans$229M
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage$5.5M
Hybrid Corn Seed$4.2M
Forage Seeding$1.6M

USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business, 2024 crop year.

Conservation and the power grid

1,668,950
CRP acres, 2025
1,364
Substations
44
345 kV and up
345 kV
Highest voltage

Conservation Reserve Program acres under contract (USDA FSA). Substations in service, from a public copy of the federal HIFLD layer.

Counties with the most farm payments

Counties in Iowa ranked by federal farm payments
CountyPaid
Kossuth County$79.3M
Woodbury County$46.3M
Fayette County$39.7M
Monona County$39.1M
Crawford County$35.7M
Palo Alto County$35.1M
Plymouth County$34.8M
Butler County$33.6M

Counties with the most foreign-held farmland

Counties in Iowa ranked by foreign-held agricultural acres
CountyAcres
Poweshiek County45,128
Dickinson County45,047
Mitchell County42,726
Washington County35,198
Page County32,741
Davis County26,274
Pocahontas County26,021
Webster County23,208

Iowa property lines by county

  • Adair County14,685
  • Adams County10,119
  • Allamakee County13,348
  • Appanoose County21,671
  • Audubon County11,303
  • Benton County18,220
  • Black Hawk County76,235
  • Boone County24,452
  • Bremer County20,071
  • Buchanan County20,689
  • Buena Vista County19,715
  • Butler County15,651
  • Calhoun County17,722
  • Carroll County21,966
  • Cass County17,145
  • Cedar County19,484
  • Cerro Gordo County32,846
  • Cherokee County16,866
  • Chickasaw County10,131
  • Clarke County12,054
  • Clay County18,349
  • Clayton County30,979
  • Clinton County34,562
  • Crawford County22,787
  • Dallas County44,227
  • Davis County11,826
  • Decatur County15,992
  • Delaware County18,209
  • Des Moines County28,676
  • Dickinson County26,864
  • Dubuque County53,029
  • Emmet County13,398
  • Fayette County16,631
  • Floyd County12,041
  • Franklin County17,386
  • Fremont County14,959
  • Greene County15,367
  • Grundy County9,938
  • Guthrie County19,174
  • Hamilton County19,286
  • Hancock County15,863
  • Hardin County21,881
  • Harrison County25,271
  • Henry County16,283
  • Howard County13,569
  • Humboldt County16,743
  • Ida County11,626
  • Iowa County19,607
  • Jackson County22,005
  • Jasper County30,254
  • Jefferson County18,230
  • Johnson County74,442
  • Jones County22,110
  • Keokuk County17,234
  • Kossuth County26,105
  • Lee County30,557
  • Linn County105,885
  • Louisa County13,617
  • Lucas County12,535
  • Lyon County11,880
  • Madison County17,556
  • Mahaska County22,962
  • Marion County25,320
  • Marshall County27,074
  • Mills County17,437
  • Mitchell County11,655
  • Monona County20,962
  • Monroe County16,162
  • Montgomery County14,279
  • Muscatine County24,924
  • O'Brien County18,267
  • Osceola County12,056
  • Page County18,180
  • Palo Alto County16,218
  • Plymouth County29,915
  • Pocahontas County18,887
  • Polk County191,309
  • Pottawattamie County53,839
  • Poweshiek County20,613
  • Ringgold County13,710
  • Sac County18,379
  • Scott County75,503
  • Shelby County17,274
  • Sioux County30,725
  • Story County42,273
  • Tama County22,837
  • Taylor County16,474
  • Union County14,513
  • Van Buren County14,884
  • Wapello County30,682
  • Warren County36,052
  • Washington County21,610
  • Wayne County13,776
  • Webster County33,455
  • Winnebago County12,418
  • Winneshiek County21,126
  • Woodbury County55,526
  • Worth County11,818
  • Wright County18,978