THE FOUNTAIN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Fountain County has 395.7 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Fountain County: Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Glaciated Wabash Lowlands.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Fountain County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains95.3%
- Glaciated Wabash Lowlands4.7%
Interior River Valleys and Hills in Fountain 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 Fountain County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fountain County, including Richland, Troy, Millcreek. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fountain County by land and water
The Census records 2.21 square miles of water within Fountain County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Fountain County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fountain County has 10.6 times the land area of nearby Van Buren township (37.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Montgomery County, Parke County, Tippecanoe County, Vermillion County, Warren County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

