THE BRACKEN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Hills of the Bluegrass setting.
Bracken County has 202.7 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Bracken County: Hills of the Bluegrass, Outer 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
Bracken County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Hills of the Bluegrass83.1%
- Outer Bluegrass16.9%
Finding your parcel within Bracken County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bracken County, including Augusta, Brooksville, Germantown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bracken County by land and water
The Census records 6.29 square miles of water within Bracken County, or 3% of its total area. That share is close to Bracken County’s 3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bracken County has 429.4 times the land area of nearby Brooksville city (0.47 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Harrison County, Mason County, Pendleton County, Robertson County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

