THE POSEY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands setting.
Posey County has 409.4 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Posey County: Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands, Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands.
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
Posey County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands59.1%
- Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands40.9%
Finding your parcel within Posey County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Posey County, including Black, Marrs, Point. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Posey County by land and water
The Census records 10.2 square miles of water within Posey County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Posey County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Posey County has 9.4 times the land area of nearby Lynn township (43.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gibson County, Vanderburgh County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.