THE PULASKI COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Middle Tippecanoe Plains setting.
Pulaski County has 433.7 square miles of land in Indiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Pulaski County: Middle Tippecanoe Plains, Sand Area, Illinois/Indiana Prairies.
Lakes, marshes and complex glacial deposits create a varied landscape around southern Michigan and northern Indiana. Moraines, beach ridges, dunes, kettles and meltwater channels occur across the region.
Regional context: Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Pulaski County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Middle Tippecanoe Plains49.9%
- Sand Area38.7%
- Illinois/Indiana Prairies11.4%
Central Corn Belt Plains in Pulaski County
Glaciated plains historically supported tallgrass prairie mixed with oak and hickory woodland. Dark prairie soils and broad farming landscapes distinguish much of the Central Corn Belt.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Pulaski County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pulaski County, including Monroe, White Post, Tippecanoe. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pulaski County by land and water
The Census records 0.86 square miles of water within Pulaski County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Pulaski County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pulaski County has 10.6 times the land area of nearby Monroe township (41 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cass County, Fulton County, Jasper County, Marshall County, Starke County, White County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

