THE MADISON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Madison County has 451.9 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Madison 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
Madison County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains84.4%
- Clayey High Lime Till Plains15.6%
Finding your parcel within Madison County
The atlas lists 31 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Madison County, including Monroe, Pipe Creek, Fall Creek. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Madison County by land and water
The Census records 0.98 square miles of water within Madison County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Madison County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Madison County has 12.8 times the land area of nearby Lafayette township (35.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Delaware County, Grant County, Hamilton County, Hancock County, Henry County, Tipton County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

