THE MEADE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Mitchell Plain setting.
Meade County has 305.5 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Meade County: Mitchell Plain, Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands.
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
Meade County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Mitchell Plain60.7%
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands39.3%
Finding your parcel within Meade County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Meade County, including Fort Knox, Brandenburg, Doe Valley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Meade County by land and water
The Census records 18.9 square miles of water within Meade County, or 5.8% of its total area. That share is close to Meade County’s 5.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Meade County has 70.3 times the land area of nearby Brandenburg city (4.35 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Breckinridge County, Hardin County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

