THE FLOYD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Mitchell Plain setting.
Floyd County has 148.5 square miles of land in Indiana. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Floyd County: Mitchell Plain, Knobs-Norman Upland, Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains, among others.
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
Floyd County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Mitchell Plain44.8%
- Knobs-Norman Upland39.9%
- Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains12.3%
- Outer Bluegrass3%
Eastern Corn Belt Plains in Floyd County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Floyd County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Floyd County, including New Albany, Greenville, Georgetown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Floyd County by land and water
The Census records 1.03 square miles of water within Floyd County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Floyd County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Floyd County has 23.2 times the land area of nearby Floyds Knobs CDP (6.41 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clark County, Harrison County, Washington County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

