THE SCHUYLER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Dissected Illinoian Till Plain setting.
Schuyler County has 437.3 square miles of land in Illinois. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Schuyler 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
Schuyler County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Dissected Illinoian Till Plain71.5%
- River Hills20.5%
- Upper Mississippi Alluvial Plain8%
Finding your parcel within Schuyler County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Schuyler County, including Bainbridge, Birmingham, Huntsville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Schuyler County by land and water
The Census records 4.06 square miles of water within Schuyler County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Schuyler County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Schuyler County has 12 times the land area of nearby Buena Vista township (36.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Brown County, Cass County, Fulton County, Hancock County, Mason County, McDonough County within Illinois. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.