THE WOODFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Illinois/Indiana Prairies setting.
Woodford County has 527.6 square miles of land in Illinois. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Woodford County: Illinois/Indiana Prairies, River Hills, Upper Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
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
Where the landscape changes
Woodford County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Illinois/Indiana Prairies81.5%
- River Hills13.7%
- Upper Mississippi Alluvial Plain4.8%
Interior River Valleys and Hills in Woodford County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Woodford County
The atlas lists 34 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Woodford County, including Palestine, Roanoke, Linn. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Woodford County by land and water
The Census records 15.4 square miles of water within Woodford County, or 2.8% of its total area. That share is close to Woodford County’s 2.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Woodford County has 14.4 times the land area of nearby Roanoke township (36.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets LaSalle County, Livingston County, Marshall County, McLean County, Peoria County, Tazewell County within Illinois. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

