THE DAVIESS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands setting.
Daviess County has 458.4 square miles of land in Kentucky. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Daviess County: Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands, Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands, Caseyville Hills.
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
Daviess County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands69.2%
- Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands29%
- Caseyville Hills1.8%
Finding your parcel within Daviess County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Daviess County, including Owensboro, Masonville, Sorgho. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Daviess County by land and water
The Census records 18.1 square miles of water within Daviess County, or 3.8% of its total area. That share is close to Daviess County’s 3.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Daviess County has 21.5 times the land area of nearby Owensboro city (21.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hancock County, Henderson County, McLean County, Ohio County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

