THE PULASKI COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Highland Rim setting.
Pulaski County has 658.1 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Pulaski County: Eastern Highland Rim, 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
Pulaski County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Eastern Highland Rim59.2%
- Plateau Escarpment40.8%
Southwestern Appalachians in Pulaski County
Open low mountains and plateau edges form a landscape of wooded uplands and deeper ravines. Escarpments mark the transition toward both the Ridge and Valley and the Interior Plateau.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Pulaski County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pulaski County, including Somerset, Burnside, Ferguson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pulaski County by land and water
The Census records 19 square miles of water within Pulaski County, or 2.8% of its total area. That share is close to Pulaski County’s 2.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pulaski County has 43.4 times the land area of nearby Somerset city (15.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Casey County, Laurel County, Lincoln County, McCreary County, Rockcastle County, Russell County, Wayne County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

