THE ANDERSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Hills of the Bluegrass setting.
Anderson County has 202.3 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Anderson County: Hills of the Bluegrass, Inner Bluegrass.
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
Anderson County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Hills of the Bluegrass77.9%
- Inner Bluegrass22.1%
Finding your parcel within Anderson County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Anderson County, including Lawrenceburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Anderson County by land and water
The Census records 2.03 square miles of water within Anderson County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Anderson County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Anderson County has 33.6 times the land area of nearby Lawrenceburg city (6.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Franklin County, Mercer County, Nelson County, Shelby County, Spencer County, Washington County, Woodford County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

