THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands setting.
Livingston County has 313 square miles of land in Kentucky. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Livingston County: Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands, Western Highland Rim, Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands.
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
Livingston County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands54%
- Western Highland Rim28.4%
- Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands17.6%
Interior River Valleys and Hills in Livingston County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Livingston County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Livingston County, including Ledbetter, Grand Rivers, Burna. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Livingston County by land and water
The Census records 29.2 square miles of water within Livingston County, or 8.5% of its total area. That share is close to Livingston County’s 8.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Livingston County has 232.9 times the land area of nearby Burna CDP (1.34 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Crittenden County, Lyon County, Marshall County, McCracken County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

