THE MCLEAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Illinois/Indiana Prairies setting.
McLean County has 1,183.2 square miles of land in Illinois. The mapped landscape region in McLean 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 McLean County
The atlas lists 54 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with McLean County, including Gridley, Randolph, Empire. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
McLean County by land and water
The Census records 3.01 square miles of water within McLean County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to McLean County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, McLean County has 33.7 times the land area of nearby Towanda township (35.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Champaign County, De Witt County, Ford County, Livingston County, Logan County, Piatt County, Tazewell County, Woodford County within Illinois. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

