THE FULTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Dissected Illinoian Till Plain setting.
Fulton County has 865.7 square miles of land in Illinois. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Fulton County: Western Dissected Illinoian Till Plain, River Hills, Upper Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
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
Fulton County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Dissected Illinoian Till Plain80.6%
- River Hills11.4%
- Upper Mississippi Alluvial Plain8%
Finding your parcel within Fulton County
The atlas lists 46 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fulton County, including Liverpool, Cass, Woodland. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fulton County by land and water
The Census records 16.9 square miles of water within Fulton County, or 1.9% of its total area. That share is close to Fulton County’s 1.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fulton County has 25.8 times the land area of nearby Putman township (33.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Knox County, Mason County, McDonough County, Peoria County, Schuyler County, Tazewell County, Warren County within Illinois. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

