THE GREENE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Wabash Lowlands setting.
Greene County has 542.5 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Greene County: Glaciated Wabash Lowlands, Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands.
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.
Regional context: Interior River Valleys and Hills ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Greene County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Wabash Lowlands62.3%
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands37.7%
Interior Plateau in Greene County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Greene County
The atlas lists 28 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Greene County, including Jackson, Center, Beech Creek. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Greene County by land and water
The Census records 3.44 square miles of water within Greene County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Greene County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Greene County has 2,685.5 times the land area of nearby Switz City town (0.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clay County, Daviess County, Knox County, Lawrence County, Martin County, Monroe County, Owen County, Sullivan County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

