THE BOURBON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Bluegrass setting.
Bourbon County has 289.8 square miles of land in Kentucky. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Bourbon County: Inner Bluegrass, 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
Bourbon County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Inner Bluegrass52.6%
- Outer Bluegrass45.4%
- Hills of the Bluegrass2%
Finding your parcel within Bourbon County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bourbon County, including Paris, Millersburg, North Middletown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bourbon County by land and water
The Census records 1.86 square miles of water within Bourbon County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Bourbon County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bourbon County has 36.5 times the land area of nearby Paris city (7.95 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bath County, Clark County, Fayette County, Harrison County, Montgomery County, Nicholas County, Scott County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

