THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Illinois/Indiana Prairies setting.
Livingston County has 1,043.6 square miles of land in Illinois. The mapped landscape region in Livingston County is Illinois/Indiana Prairies.
Glaciated plains historically supported tallgrass prairie mixed with oak and hickory woodland. Dark prairie soils and broad farming landscapes distinguish much of the Central Corn Belt.
Regional context: Central Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Livingston County
The atlas lists 46 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Livingston County, including Saunemin, Sullivan, Reading. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Livingston County by land and water
The Census records 2.31 square miles of water within Livingston County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Livingston County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Livingston County has 28.9 times the land area of nearby Owego township (36.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ford County, Grundy County, Kankakee County, LaSalle County, McLean County, Woodford County within Illinois. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

