THE CRITTENDEN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands setting.
Crittenden County has 359.6 square miles of land in Kentucky. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Crittenden County: Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands, Caseyville Hills, Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands, 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
Crittenden County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands61.5%
- Caseyville Hills16.3%
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands9%
- Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands6.4%
- Western Pennyroyal Karst Plain4.9%
Interior River Valleys and Hills in Crittenden 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 Crittenden County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Crittenden County, including Marion, Crayne, Tolu. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Crittenden County by land and water
The Census records 11.7 square miles of water within Crittenden County, or 3.2% of its total area. That share is close to Crittenden County’s 3.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crittenden County has 98.9 times the land area of nearby Marion city (3.64 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Caldwell County, Livingston County, Lyon County, Union County, Webster County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

