THE HOWARD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Howard County has 293.1 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Howard County: Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Clayey 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
Where the landscape changes
Howard County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains77.1%
- Clayey High Lime Till Plains22.9%
Finding your parcel within Howard County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Howard County, including Ervin, Kokomo, Liberty. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Howard County by land and water
The Census records 0.85 square miles of water within Howard County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Howard County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Howard County has 11.4 times the land area of nearby Center township (25.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Cass County, Clinton County, Grant County, Miami County, Tipton County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

