THE BULLITT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Knobs-Norman Upland setting.
Bullitt County has 297.1 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Bullitt County: Knobs-Norman Upland, 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
Bullitt County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Knobs-Norman Upland60.6%
- Outer Bluegrass39.4%
Finding your parcel within Bullitt County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bullitt County, including Shepherdsville, Mount Washington, Hillview. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bullitt County by land and water
The Census records 3.18 square miles of water within Bullitt County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Bullitt County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bullitt County has 18.2 times the land area of nearby Shepherdsville city (16.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hardin County, Jefferson County, Nelson County, Spencer County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

