THE BUTLER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Caseyville Hills setting.
Butler County has 426.1 square miles of land in Kentucky. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Butler County: Caseyville Hills, Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands, Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands.
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.
Regional context: Interior River Valleys and Hills ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Butler County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Caseyville Hills73.9%
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands17.3%
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands8.8%
Interior Plateau in Butler County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Butler County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Butler County, including Morgantown, Rochester, Woodbury. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Butler County by land and water
The Census records 5.36 square miles of water within Butler County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Butler County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Butler County has 128.1 times the land area of nearby Morgantown city (3.33 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Edmonson County, Grayson County, Logan County, Muhlenberg County, Ohio County, Warren County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

