THE PENDLETON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Hills of the Bluegrass setting.
Pendleton County has 277.1 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Pendleton County: Hills of the Bluegrass, Outer Bluegrass.
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
Pendleton County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Hills of the Bluegrass99.8%
- Outer Bluegrass0.2%
Finding your parcel within Pendleton County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pendleton County, including Williamstown, Falmouth, Butler. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pendleton County by land and water
The Census records 4.76 square miles of water within Pendleton County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Pendleton County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pendleton County has 203.8 times the land area of nearby Falmouth city (1.36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bracken County, Campbell County, Grant County, Harrison County, Kenton County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

