THE ELLIOTT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau setting.
Elliott County has 234.3 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Elliott County: Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau, Carter Hills.
Rounded wooded hills and intervening valleys form an unglaciated plateau landscape. Valley floors contain much of the region's open land, contrasting with its more forested slopes.
Regional context: Western Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Elliott County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau61.8%
- Carter Hills38.2%
Finding your parcel within Elliott County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Elliott County, including Sandy Hook. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Elliott County by land and water
The Census records 1 square miles of water within Elliott County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Elliott County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Elliott County has 238.6 times the land area of nearby Sandy Hook city (0.98 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carter County, Lawrence County, Morgan County, Rowan County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

