THE HENDERSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands setting.
Henderson County has 436.4 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Henderson County: Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands, Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands.
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
Henderson County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands61.3%
- Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands38.7%
Finding your parcel within Henderson County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Henderson County, including Henderson, Robards, Poole. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Henderson County by land and water
The Census records 29.2 square miles of water within Henderson County, or 6.3% of its total area. That share is close to Henderson County’s 6.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Henderson County has 25.8 times the land area of nearby Henderson city (16.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Daviess County, McLean 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.

