THE LOGAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands setting.
Logan County has 552.2 square miles of land in Kentucky. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Logan County: Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands, Western Pennyroyal Karst Plain, Caseyville Hills.
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
Logan County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands52.3%
- Western Pennyroyal Karst Plain40.7%
- Caseyville Hills7%
Interior River Valleys and Hills in Logan 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 Logan County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Logan County, including Russellville, Dunmor, Auburn. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Logan County by land and water
The Census records 4.81 square miles of water within Logan County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Logan County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Logan County has 50.2 times the land area of nearby Russellville city (11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Butler County, Muhlenberg County, Simpson County, Todd County, Warren County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

