THE RUSH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Rush County has 408.1 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Rush County: Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Whitewater Interlobate Area.
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.
Regional context: Eastern Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Rush County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains89.3%
- Whitewater Interlobate Area10.6%
Finding your parcel within Rush County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Rush County, including Rushville, Center, Orange. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Rush County by land and water
The Census records 0.32 square miles of water within Rush County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Rush County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Rush County has 120.6 times the land area of nearby Rushville city (3.39 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Decatur County, Fayette County, Franklin County, Hancock County, Henry County, Shelby County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

