THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Outer Bluegrass setting.
Montgomery County has 197.4 square miles of land in Kentucky. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Montgomery County: Outer Bluegrass, Knobs-Lower Scioto Dissected Plateau, Northern Forested Plateau Escarpment.
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
Montgomery County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Outer Bluegrass92.7%
- Knobs-Lower Scioto Dissected Plateau6.5%
- Northern Forested Plateau Escarpment0.6%
Western Allegheny Plateau in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montgomery County, including Mount Sterling, Jeffersonville, Camargo. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montgomery County by land and water
The Census records 1.46 square miles of water within Montgomery County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Montgomery County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montgomery County has 43.9 times the land area of nearby Mount Sterling city (4.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bath County, Bourbon County, Clark County, Menifee County, Nicholas County, Powell County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

