THE MAGOFFIN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Dissected Appalachian Plateau setting.
Magoffin County has 308.4 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Magoffin County: Dissected Appalachian Plateau, Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau.
A rugged, deeply cut plateau of sandstone, shale and related rocks supports extensive forest. High hills and low mountains distinguish this Appalachian landscape from smoother neighboring regions.
Regional context: Central Appalachians ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Magoffin County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Dissected Appalachian Plateau90.2%
- Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau9.8%
Western Allegheny Plateau in Magoffin County
Rounded wooded hills and intervening valleys form an unglaciated plateau landscape. Valley floors contain much of the region's open land, contrasting with its more forested slopes.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Magoffin County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Magoffin County, including Salyersville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Magoffin County by land and water
The Census records 0.71 square miles of water within Magoffin County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Magoffin County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Magoffin County has 124.9 times the land area of nearby Salyersville city (2.47 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Breathitt County, Floyd County, Johnson County, Knott County, Morgan County, Wolfe County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

