THE WARREN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Pennyroyal Karst Plain setting.
Warren County has 541.7 square miles of land in Kentucky. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Warren County: Western Pennyroyal Karst Plain, Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands, Caseyville Hills, among others.
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
Warren County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Pennyroyal Karst Plain57.6%
- Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands34.3%
- Caseyville Hills7.3%
- Eastern Highland Rim0.8%
Interior River Valleys and Hills in Warren County
Broad terraced river valleys contrast with wooded slopes and dissected glacial plains. Bottomland settings and upland oak landscapes occur close together across the Interior River Valleys and Hills.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Warren County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Warren County, including Bowling Green, Oakland, Plano. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Warren County by land and water
The Census records 5.82 square miles of water within Warren County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Warren County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Warren County has 12.9 times the land area of nearby Bowling Green city (42 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Allen County, Barren County, Butler County, Edmonson County, Logan County, Simpson County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

