THE HENRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Outer Bluegrass setting.
Henry County has 286.3 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Henry County: Outer Bluegrass, Hills of the Bluegrass.
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
Henry County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Outer Bluegrass68.4%
- Hills of the Bluegrass31.6%
Finding your parcel within Henry County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Henry County, including Eminence, Campbellsburg, Pleasureville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Henry County by land and water
The Census records 4.87 square miles of water within Henry County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Henry County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Henry County has 698.2 times the land area of nearby New Castle city (0.41 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Franklin County, Oldham County, Owen County, Shelby County, Trimble County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

