THE CALDWELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands setting.
Caldwell County has 344.8 square miles of land in Kentucky. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Caldwell County: Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands, Western Pennyroyal Karst Plain, Caseyville Hills, among others.
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
Caldwell County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands34.5%
- Western Pennyroyal Karst Plain32%
- Caseyville Hills28.8%
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands4.8%
Interior River Valleys and Hills in Caldwell 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 Caldwell County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Caldwell County, including Princeton, Dawson Springs, Fredonia. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Caldwell County by land and water
The Census records 3.31 square miles of water within Caldwell County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Caldwell County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Caldwell County has 38.4 times the land area of nearby Princeton city (8.99 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Christian County, Crittenden County, Hopkins County, Lyon County, Trigg County, Webster County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

