THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Illinoian Till Plain setting.
Crawford County has 443.6 square miles of land in Illinois. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Crawford County: Southern Illinoian Till Plain, Wabash River Bluffs and Low Hills, Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands.
Broad terraced river valleys contrast with wooded slopes and dissected glacial plains. Bottomland settings and upland oak landscapes occur close together across the Interior River Valleys and Hills.
Regional context: Interior River Valleys and Hills ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Crawford County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Illinoian Till Plain56.1%
- Wabash River Bluffs and Low Hills26.5%
- Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands17.4%
Finding your parcel within Crawford County
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Crawford County, including Oblong, Robinson, Montgomery. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Crawford County by land and water
The Census records 2.22 square miles of water within Crawford County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Crawford County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crawford County has 7.8 times the land area of nearby Robinson township (57.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clark County, Jasper County, Lawrence County, Richland County within Illinois. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.