THE BOONE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Outer Bluegrass setting.
Boone County has 246.3 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Boone County: Outer Bluegrass, Hills of the 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
Boone County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Outer Bluegrass98.9%
- Hills of the Bluegrass1.1%
Finding your parcel within Boone County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Boone County, including Verona, Florence, Burlington. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Boone County by land and water
The Census records 10.2 square miles of water within Boone County, or 4% of its total area. That share is close to Boone County’s 4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Boone County has 62.4 times the land area of nearby Union city (3.95 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gallatin County, Grant County, Kenton County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

