THE JASPER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Illinois/Indiana Prairies setting.
Jasper County has 559.7 square miles of land in Indiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Jasper County: Illinois/Indiana Prairies, Sand Area, Kankakee Marsh.
Glaciated plains historically supported tallgrass prairie mixed with oak and hickory woodland. Dark prairie soils and broad farming landscapes distinguish much of the Central Corn Belt.
Regional context: Central Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Jasper County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Illinois/Indiana Prairies46.8%
- Sand Area46.3%
- Kankakee Marsh6.8%
Finding your parcel within Jasper County
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jasper County, including Barkley, Walker, Union. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jasper County by land and water
The Census records 1.71 square miles of water within Jasper County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Jasper County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jasper County has 9.3 times the land area of nearby Barkley township (59.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Benton County, LaPorte County, Lake County, Newton County, Porter County, Pulaski County, Starke County, White County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

