THE PARKE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Wabash Lowlands setting.
Parke County has 444.7 square miles of land in Indiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Parke County: Glaciated Wabash Lowlands, Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands.
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
Parke County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Wabash Lowlands52.5%
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains44.3%
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands3.1%
Eastern Corn Belt Plains in Parke County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Interior Plateau in Parke County
Open hills, irregular plains and tablelands are developed on limestone and other sedimentary rocks. Oak-hickory woodland, local prairie and cedar-glade settings contribute to this diverse inland plateau.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Parke County
The atlas lists 22 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Parke County, including Adams, Florida, Liberty. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Parke County by land and water
The Census records 5.27 square miles of water within Parke County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Parke County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Parke County has 298.1 times the land area of nearby Rockville town (1.49 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clay County, Fountain County, Montgomery County, Putnam County, Vermillion County, Vigo County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

