THE PIKE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands setting.
Pike County has 334.4 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Pike County: Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands, Glaciated 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
Pike County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands99.9%
- Glaciated Wabash Lowlands0.1%
Finding your parcel within Pike County
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pike County, including Jefferson, Lockhart, Washington. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pike County by land and water
The Census records 6.74 square miles of water within Pike County, or 2% of its total area. That share is close to Pike County’s 2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pike County has 486.7 times the land area of nearby Winslow town (0.69 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Daviess County, Dubois County, Gibson County, Knox County, Warrick County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

