THE PERRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands setting.
Perry County has 381.7 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Perry County: Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands, Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands.
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.
Regional context: Interior Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Perry County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands99.6%
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands0.3%
Interior River Valleys and Hills in Perry County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Perry County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Perry County, including Clark, Oil, Tobin. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Perry County by land and water
The Census records 4.57 square miles of water within Perry County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Perry County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Perry County has 11.9 times the land area of nearby Leopold township (32.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Crawford County, Dubois County, Spencer County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

