THE SPENCER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Outer Bluegrass setting.
Spencer County has 186.7 square miles of land in Kentucky. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Spencer County: Outer Bluegrass, Hills of the 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
Spencer County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Outer Bluegrass70.6%
- Hills of the Bluegrass29.4%
Finding your parcel within Spencer County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Spencer County, including Elk Creek, Taylorsville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Spencer County by land and water
The Census records 4.99 square miles of water within Spencer County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Spencer County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Spencer County has 199 times the land area of nearby Taylorsville city (0.94 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Anderson County, Bullitt County, Jefferson County, Nelson County, Shelby County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

