THE KNOX COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Wabash Lowlands setting.
Knox County has 515.8 square miles of land in Indiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Knox County: Glaciated Wabash Lowlands, Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands, Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands.
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
Knox County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Wabash Lowlands70.2%
- Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands29.4%
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands0.4%
Finding your parcel within Knox County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Knox County, including Harrison, Vigo, Vincennes. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Knox County by land and water
The Census records 8.07 square miles of water within Knox County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Knox County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Knox County has 13.8 times the land area of nearby Palmyra township (37.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Daviess County, Gibson County, Greene County, Pike County, Sullivan County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.