THE EDINBURGH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Edinburgh town has 3.31 square miles of land in Bartholomew County, Johnson County, Shelby County. Its Census reference point is in Loamy High Lime Till Plains, within Eastern Corn Belt Plains.
Rolling glacial till plains are interrupted by end moraines and areas of older, more dissected deposits. The historical landscape had more tree cover than the Central Corn Belt to the west.
Regional context: Eastern Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
One place name. 3 county geographies.
Edinburgh intersects 3 county geographies: Bartholomew County, Johnson County, Shelby County. A Edinburgh mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Edinburgh by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Edinburgh, or 0% of its total area. It is 1.6 percentage points lower than the 1.6% recorded for Indiana. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Edinburgh town has 16.8 times the land area of nearby Pleasant View Village CDP (0.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

