THE BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands setting.
Breckinridge County has 569.7 square miles of land in Kentucky. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Breckinridge County: Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands, Caseyville Hills, Mitchell Plain.
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
Breckinridge County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands84.8%
- Caseyville Hills10.5%
- Mitchell Plain4.8%
Interior River Valleys and Hills in Breckinridge County
Broad terraced river valleys contrast with wooded slopes and dissected glacial plains. Bottomland settings and upland oak landscapes occur close together across the Interior River Valleys and Hills.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Breckinridge County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Breckinridge County, including Hardinsburg, Cloverport, Irvington. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Breckinridge County by land and water
The Census records 15.9 square miles of water within Breckinridge County, or 2.7% of its total area. That share is close to Breckinridge County’s 2.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Breckinridge County has 164.8 times the land area of nearby Hardinsburg city (3.46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Grayson County, Hancock County, Hardin County, Meade County, Ohio County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

