THE HOPKINS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands setting.
Hopkins County has 542.3 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Hopkins County: Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands, 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
Hopkins County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands99.3%
- Caseyville Hills0.7%
Finding your parcel within Hopkins County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hopkins County, including Madisonville, Dawson Springs, White Plains. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hopkins County by land and water
The Census records 12.1 square miles of water within Hopkins County, or 2.2% of its total area. That share is close to Hopkins County’s 2.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hopkins County has 29.2 times the land area of nearby Madisonville city (18.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Caldwell County, Christian County, McLean County, Muhlenberg County, Webster County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

