THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands setting.
Crawford County has 305.6 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Crawford County: Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands, Mitchell Plain.
Open hills, irregular plains and tablelands are developed on limestone and other sedimentary rocks. Oak-hickory woodland, local prairie and cedar-glade settings contribute to this diverse inland plateau.
Regional context: Interior Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Crawford County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands93%
- Mitchell Plain7%
Finding your parcel within Crawford County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Crawford County, including Sterling, Jennings, Patoka. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Crawford County by land and water
The Census records 3.17 square miles of water within Crawford County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Crawford County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crawford County has 402.1 times the land area of nearby Grantsburg CDP (0.76 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dubois County, Harrison County, Orange County, Perry County, Washington County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

