THE CALLOWAY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Plains setting.
Calloway County has 384.9 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Calloway County: Loess Plains, Western Highland Rim.
Windblown loess blankets irregular plains and rolling hills, with steeper bluffs near the Mississippi River. Flatter eastern areas contrast with the more deeply cut bluff country.
Regional context: Mississippi Valley Loess Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Calloway County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess Plains61.2%
- Western Highland Rim38.8%
Interior Plateau in Calloway 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 Calloway County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Calloway County, including Murray, Dexter, Hazel. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Calloway County by land and water
The Census records 25.8 square miles of water within Calloway County, or 6.3% of its total area. That share is close to Calloway County’s 6.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Calloway County has 32.9 times the land area of nearby Murray city (11.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Graves County, Marshall County, Trigg County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

