THE HENDRICKS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Hendricks County has 406.9 square miles of land in Indiana. The mapped landscape region in Hendricks County is Loamy High Lime Till 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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Hendricks County
The atlas lists 26 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hendricks County, including Liberty, Center, Eel River. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hendricks County by land and water
The Census records 1.88 square miles of water within Hendricks County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Hendricks County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hendricks County has 8.8 times the land area of nearby Center township (46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Boone County, Marion County, Montgomery County, Morgan County, Putnam County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

